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Swedish government rebuked for failing to include tobacco harm reduction in public health bill
Swedish government rebuked for failing to include tobacco harm reduction in public health bill
Sweden’s parliament has voted down a controversial government public health proposal criticised by lawmakers for failing to include tobacco harm reduction. The vote in the full chamber of the Riksdag followed the recommendation of the Committee on Social A...
EU Nicotine Users Survey: 3 of 10 EU smokers would switch to snus if it were legal
EU Nicotine Users Survey: 3 of 10 EU smokers would switch to snus if it were legal
Nearly a third of EU smokers would consider switching to snus if it were legal, the results of the EU Nicotine Users Survey reveal. The survey found that 31 percent of smokers who want to quit indicat...
EU Tobacco Products Directive a ‘wasted opportunity’ to learn from Sweden
EU Tobacco Products Directive a ‘wasted opportunity’ to learn from Sweden
The latest EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) report makes no attempt to understand why the one EU country where snus is legal also has the EU’s lowest smoking rates. The TPD 2021 Application Report, publi...
Snus and the Art of Suppression: Part 2 – The EU ban
Snus and the Art of Suppression: Part 2 – The EU ban
Why is snus banned in the European Union? How did it happen? Snusforumet, in partnership with author and commentator Christopher Snowdon, brings you the inside story behind one of the EU's more confounding pol...
Snus and the Art of Suppression: Part 1 – Snus: If you can, ban
Snus and the Art of Suppression: Part 1 – Snus: If you can, ban
Why is snus banned in the European Union? How did it happen? Snusforumet, in partnership with author and commentator Christopher Snowdon, brings you the inside story behind one of the EU's more confounding pol...
Japan cigarette sales plummet after launch of safer alternatives
Japan cigarette sales plummet after launch of safer alternatives
Offering a less-harmful alternative to deadly smoking has prompted a drop in to buy fewer cigarettes, sending cigarette sales down by 34 percent. “Japan has the makings of a great tobacco harm reduction ca...
UK should legalise snus ‘now’: MP
UK should legalise snus ‘now’: MP
Citing the impact of snus on helping reduce smoking levels in Sweden, Conservative Party MP David Jones has called for the UK to “legalise it now” as part of an expected overhaul of UK tobacco legislation. ...
MEPs largely clueless about nicotine: survey
MEPs largely clueless about nicotine: survey
A recent survey of members of the European Parliament reveals at least a third of MEPs have no knowledge of new nicotine products. And up to one in five believe that some new nicotine products are as risky as ...
Snus Commission slams EU’s Beating Cancer Plan
Snus Commission slams EU’s Beating Cancer Plan
EU policymakers are guilty of spreading “fake news” about the true causes of cancer in their recently released Beating Cancer Plan, a Swedish group has claimed. In a sharply worded letter to the European Co...