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WHO tobacco control ‘failing’ European smokers: study
WHO tobacco control ‘failing’ European smokers: study
A new, independent study shows that World Health Organisation (WHO) tobacco control measures are failing European smokers trying to quit. The study also calls for an end to the EU ban on snus, stressing that less harmful nicotine products must be much more...
Experts mull impact of PMI’s acquisition of Swedish Match on harm reduction
Experts mull impact of PMI’s acquisition of Swedish Match on harm reduction
Snusforumet speaks with several tobacco harm reduction experts and advocates to get their take on the potential impact of PMI's acquisition of Swedish Match. On May 11, Philip Morris International (PMI) ann...
BBC highlights snus’s potential to help cut UK smoking rates
BBC highlights snus’s potential to help cut UK smoking rates
Swedish snus played a starring role in a recent BBC news segment exploring the smokeless tobacco product’s potential to help cut UK smoking rates. The segment also features Professor David Nutt, an expert i...
Bengt Wiberg: one inventor’s fight to legalise snus in the EU
Bengt Wiberg: one inventor’s fight to legalise snus in the EU
In the first instalment of Snusforumet's Harm Reduction Heroes series, Snusforumet catches up with Bengt Wiberg, a Swedish entrepreneur whose passion for snus has spawned a global movement to legalise snus in ...
Guitar hero Slash: Snus ‘the best discovery in the world’
Guitar hero Slash: Snus ‘the best discovery in the world’
Rock star Slash, lead guitarist of the iconic 90s rock band Guns N’ Roses, has re-affirmed his love for Swedish snus. “When I first quit smoking, which was in 2009, pretty soon after that I discovered...
Snusforumet readership reaches new heights
Snusforumet readership reaches new heights
Snusforumet readership jumped 44 percent during 2021 amid rising interest in tobacco and public health policy both in Sweden and internationally. “It’s extremely gratifying to know that so many people are i...
Snusforumet’s most-read articles of 2021
Snusforumet’s most-read articles of 2021
Which stories were the most popular with Snusforumet readers during the last year? We've compiled a list of Snusforumet's most-read articles to make it easier for readers to find, read, and share the "greatest...
5 things we’d like to see happen at WHO COP9 – but probably won’t
5 things we’d like to see happen at WHO COP9 – but probably won’t
Ahead of the WHO COP9 meetings, check out the Snusforumet wish list of possible events, developments, and decisions that we’d like to see happen when it comes to the FCTC and tobacco harm reduction. But we won...
‘Anti-smoking McCarthyism’ behind Sweden’s lack of tobacco harm reduction leadership
‘Anti-smoking McCarthyism’ behind Sweden’s lack of tobacco harm reduction leadership
Fears of being vilified via anti-smoking McCarthyism from “abstinence-only ideologues” have kept Sweden and other governments from fully supporting tobacco harm reduction policies and products like snus and ni...