Articles tagged with Cancer
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 hits" of the past 12 months. December is often...
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...
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...
‘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...
Swedish MEP calls out Commission ‘dishonesty’ on snus and cancer
Swedish MEP calls out Commission ‘dishonesty’ on snus and cancer
Swedish MEP Sara Skyttedal believes the European Commission’s “ideological opposition” to all tobacco and nicotine leaves ignorant on the science on Swedish snus and cancer. And progress on the EU’s Beating Ca...
Beating cancer: Clive Bates on what the EU got wrong about tobacco
Beating cancer: Clive Bates on what the EU got wrong about tobacco
The European Commission recently released it’s much anticipated plan for beating cancer. While the goals are admirable, the EU Beating Cancer plan is plagued by a “fundamental error” when it comes to tobacco a...
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...
‘EU cancer plan should take inspiration from Sweden’
‘EU cancer plan should take inspiration from Sweden’
The new EU cancer plan still equates cigarettes with snus and other smokeless tobacco products -- despite scientific evidence to the contrary -- meaning its €4bn budget risks being misspent, snus manufac...