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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 in addiction at the Imperial College of London who ...

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Danish nicotine ban Danmark kan förbjuda alla nikotinprodukter för unga personer

Danish nicotine ban under fire: ‘discrimination and desperate symbolism’

Danish nicotine ban under fire: ‘discrimination and desperate symbolism’

A proposed Danish nicotine ban that would prevent anyone born 2010 or later from ever buying nicotine products has been slammed by critics for being discriminatory and ineffective Currently, Denmark has an ...

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EU cancer plan Sara Skyttedal om EU:s plan mot cancer. EU's beating cancer plan.

EU cancer plan passage ‘important step’ for tobacco harm reduction: Swedish MEP

EU cancer plan passage ‘important step’ for tobacco harm reduction: Swedish MEP

The European Parliament has adopted a “historic” EU cancer plan to guide the region's fight against cancer. Swedish MEP Sara Skyttedal called the vote an “important step” in acknowledging tobacco harm reductio...

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Sweden tobacco tax travesty: punish snus users and keep cigarettes cheap

Sweden tobacco tax travesty: punish snus users and keep cigarettes cheap

Sweden’s controversial new tobacco tax proposal would further punish already over-taxed snus users while failing to address the fact that Sweden has the Nordics' cheapest cigarettes. The Swedish government ...

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Lukas Reimann legalise snus in Switzerland

Meet Lukas Reimann, the MP and ex-smoker who helped legalise snus in Switzerland

Meet Lukas Reimann, the MP and ex-smoker who helped legalise snus in Switzerland

Swiss MP Lukas Reimann explains how a chance encounter with Swedish snus helped him kick a 20-year smoking habit, legalise snus in Switzerland, and become an outspoken ambassador for smokeless nicotine product...

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Ayesha Verrall Smokefree 2025 Action Plan New Zealand

New Zealand Smokefree 2025 Action Plan ‘shouldn’t overshadow’ harm reduction progress

New Zealand Smokefree 2025 Action Plan ‘shouldn’t overshadow’ harm reduction progress

New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 Action Plan, which will outlaw smoking for the next generation, has angered many tobacco harm reduction advocates. But Patrik Strömer of the Association of Swedish Snus Manufacture...

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Flavour ban ‘uncertainty’ clouds BECA tobacco harm reduction win

Flavour ban ‘uncertainty’ clouds BECA tobacco harm reduction win

A special committee of MEPs has adopted language acknowledging tobacco harm reduction as part of a sweeping set of recommendations to guide the EU’s fight against cancer. But concerns about a widened flavour b...

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BECA Special Committee BECA report Beating Cancer Plan Bartosz Arłukowicz

Will the EU’s final BECA report include harm reduction?

Will the EU’s final BECA report include harm reduction?

As bureaucrats in Brussels wade through more than 1,500 suggested changes to the EU’s proposed plan for fighting against cancer, it remains unclear whether the European Parliament’s BECA report will incorporat...

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EU cancer plan Sara Skyttedal om EU:s plan mot cancer. EU's beating cancer plan.

‘Impossible to ignore snus’ in EU’s beating cancer plan: Swedish MEP

‘Impossible to ignore snus’ in EU’s beating cancer plan: Swedish MEP

Swedish MEP Sara Skyttedal remains critical of the European Commission's continued unwillingness to recognise the potential for snus and other harm reduction alternatives for reducing tobacco-related mortality...