Articles tagged with Swedish Match

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charles a gardner

Charles A. Gardner: Prohibiting reduced-risk products ‘akin to manslaughter’

Charles A. Gardner: Prohibiting reduced-risk products ‘akin to manslaughter’

In this instalment of our Harm Reduction Heroes series, Snusforumet talks to Dr. Charles A. Gardner, executive director of INNCO, the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organisations, about the many shortcomings of the American approach to tobacco har...

Health
Lars-Erik Rutqvist Lars Rutqvist snus cancer

Lars Rutqvist: the oncologist who wants smokers to switch to Swedish snus

Lars Rutqvist: the oncologist who wants smokers to switch to Swedish snus

In the 1980s, it was controversial to claim that snus is less harmful than smoking cigarettes, especially if you were an oncologist. But Lars Rutqvist simply wanted to let the research speak for itself. And it...

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PMI-Swedish Match

Experts mull impact of PMI’s acquisition of Swedish Match on harm reduction

Experts mull impact of PMI’s acquisition of Swedish Match on harm reduction

Snusforumet speaks with several tobacco harm reduction experts and advocates to get their take on the potential impact of PMI's acquisition of Swedish Match. On May 11, Philip Morris International (PMI) ann...

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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...

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martin cullip.non-combustible

Is the vision of a non-combustible tobacco industry within reach?

Is the vision of a non-combustible tobacco industry within reach?

Leading tobacco companies are moving away from cigarettes toward safer, non-combustible products. But ironically, anti-smoking crusaders continue to block efforts to provide consumers with safer alternatives, ...

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...

Regulations
nicotine pouches, nikotinportioner, Nicotine, us tobacco tax

Proposed US tobacco tax could have ‘game-changing impact’ on nicotine pouches

Proposed US tobacco tax could have ‘game-changing impact’ on nicotine pouches

The price of nicotine pouches in the US could rise by 178%, making them more expensive than cigarettes, if a new US tobacco tax proposal becomes law. The budget proposal, put forward last month by the Democ...

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David Sweanor

David Sweanor: Swedish Match deserves as much credit as Volvo for saving lives

David Sweanor: Swedish Match deserves as much credit as Volvo for saving lives

Swedish Match has never gotten the credit it deserves for offering products that help save lives, says tobacco control pioneer David Sweanor. And he’s not sure the company’s complete exit from combustible toba...

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...