Articles tagged with Snus Commission

EU

Snus and the EU: The debate since 1995

Snus and the EU: The debate since 1995

From just another tobacco product to a public health phenomenon, how has a small pouch managed to keep tongues wagging across the EU for nearly 30 years? Patrik Strömer, Secretary General of the Association of Swedish Snus Manufacturers, looks back at the twi...

Health
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Sweden nears smoke-free status: a ‘public health miracle’

Sweden nears smoke-free status: a ‘public health miracle’

Sweden will soon be the first country in the world to reach smoke-free status. And lessons from Sweden's "public health miracle" can help inspire other countries, according to a new report on the “Swedish Exp...

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‘Snus has Sweden on track to be world’s first smoke-free country’

‘Snus has Sweden on track to be world’s first smoke-free country’

Only five percent of the Swedish population smokes, meaning the country may soon lay claim to being the world's first smoke-free country, argues Sweden’s Snus Commission. "The reason is snus," the group wri...

Science
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Nicotine illiteracy threatens pouches’ harm reduction potential: report

Nicotine illiteracy threatens pouches’ harm reduction potential: report

Nicotine pouches have the potential to be a “credible, viable, and safer” alternative to deadly cigarettes, but nicotine illiteracy and a lack of research need to be addressed for the category to reach its ful...

Health

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...

Opinions

Debate: Snus could save the lives of Swedish women

Debate: Snus could save the lives of Swedish women

Sweden’s tobacco policy is failing Swedish women by treating smoking and snus as equally harmful, the Snus Commission has argued in a hard-hitting opinion piece published in the Aftonbladet newspaper. "Snus...

Opinions

Sweden’s inaction on snus in Brussels ‘unethical’

Sweden’s inaction on snus in Brussels ‘unethical’

The independent Snus Commission has taken the Swedish government to task for its inaction on snus in Brussels and failure to inform the EU about the public health benefits of snus.  A more proactive approac...

Opinions

Harm reduction in focus at Global Forum on Nicotine 2018

Harm reduction in focus at Global Forum on Nicotine 2018

The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) is an annual conference that brings together researchers, manufacturers, and users of nicotine, a wide spectrum of participants rarely found in other similar conferences.  ...

Opinions

The unsustainable EU snus ban

The unsustainable EU snus ban

Patrik Strömer, Secretary General of the Association of Swedish Snus Manufacturers, reflects on the unsustainable EU snus ban following a recent announcement by the European Court of Justice. Henrik Saugman...