Articles tagged with EU

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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 as part of the EU's beating cancer plan. Work ...

Regulations
nicotine regulation

Nicotine regulation in Europe: ‘It feels like we’re going backwards’

Nicotine regulation in Europe: ‘It feels like we’re going backwards’

Despite ample evidence that snus and new nicotine products can save lives by helping people quit smoking, harm reduction advocates and industry experts fear that European policymakers are less informed about n...

Opinions
Christopher Snowdon

Christopher Snowdon: snus ban a ‘shameful episode’ in EU history

Christopher Snowdon: snus ban a ‘shameful episode’ in EU history

In an exclusive interview with Snusforumet, author and commentator Christopher Snowdon reflects on the legacy of the EU snus ban ten years after he published an exhaustive account of the “shameful episode” in ...

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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...

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Jörgen Warborn, EU-parlamentariker, M

Swedish MEP: Revised EU Tobacco Products Directive must allow snus

Swedish MEP: Revised EU Tobacco Products Directive must allow snus

The upcoming revision of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) is an opportunity to finally lift the EU’s ban on snus and give smokers the chance to switch to a much less harmful product, argues Swedish MEP ...

Regulations

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...

Regulations

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...

Regulations

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...

Regulations
David Jones legalise snus

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. ...