Articles tagged with Patrik Strömer

Regulations
UK WHO FCTC COP9

FCTC COP9: All eyes on UK as pressure mounts over WHO harm reduction stance

FCTC COP9: All eyes on UK as pressure mounts over WHO harm reduction stance

Amid a growing chorus calling for the WHO to drop its opposition to tobacco harm reduction, many are pinning their hopes on a post-Brexit UK to challenge the status quo at the upcoming FCTC COP9 meetings. Following a pandemic-induced delay, the WHO’s ninth...

Health
lars dahlgren swedish match smoke-free

Swedish Match to create world’s first smoke-free tobacco company

Swedish Match to create world’s first smoke-free tobacco company

Swedish Match has announced plans to sell off its remaining cigar business, a move that would put the Swedish snus maker “way out ahead” of its peers as the world’s first smoke-free tobacco company. The Sto...

Opinions
Global Forum on Nicotine 2021

Global Forum on Nicotine 2021 preview: Patrik Strömer on snus and the future of nicotine

Global Forum on Nicotine 2021 preview: Patrik Strömer on snus and the future of nicotine

Patrik Strömer, Secretary General of the Association of Swedish Snus Manufacturers, offers his recommendations and expectations about what to watch ahead of the Global Forum on Nicotine 2021. Themed ‘the Fu...

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...

Opinions
Patrik Strömer Snusforumet

Welcome to Snusforumet!

Welcome to Snusforumet!

We are pleased to launch this international version of Snusforumet, which has been published in Swedish since 2014. So what is snus and why does it deserve a site dedicated to publishing news and informatio...

Opinions
Patrik Strömer

‘Blatant moralism’ behind campaign against tobacco-free nicotine products

‘Blatant moralism’ behind campaign against tobacco-free nicotine products

As Sweden waits for a decision on how to regulate of tobacco-free nicotine products, Helen Stjerna, Secretary General of A Non Smoking Generation, has criticised the category in a debate article. Patrik Ströme...

Opinions
Margaritis Schinas

‘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...

Health
tobacco endgame, non-smoking; non-combustible

New report on snus as a quit smoking aid

New report on snus as a quit smoking aid

More and more people are interested in how Swedish snus can be used as an aid to quit smoking. The latest report on the subject, from Tove Sohlberg and Peter Wennberg, two researchers at Stockholm Universit...

Health

New report reveals snus use patterns in Sweden

New report reveals snus use patterns in Sweden

A new report on snus use from Sweden's Central Association for Alcohol and Drug Information, CAN, shows that approximately 17 percent of the Swedish population used snus in some form in 2019.  Since 2013 CA...