Articles tagged with Swedish Match
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 nicotine regulation today than they were a decade a...
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...
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...
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...
US FDA confirms snus is less dangerous than cigarettes
US FDA confirms snus is less dangerous than cigarettes
Snus from Swedish Match will be the first tobacco product ever to be designated as "less risky" in the US following a historic decision by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “We see it as a scientif...
Fight to end snus ban continues despite new EU ‘no’
Fight to end snus ban continues despite new EU ‘no’
The ban on the sale of snus in the European Union is set to remain in place after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled against Swedish Match in what campaigners slammed as “a defeat for public health”. ...
‘Political’ snus ban prevents EU harm reduction strategy
‘Political’ snus ban prevents EU harm reduction strategy
The European Court of Justice is set to rule this autumn on the ban on snus, which snus manufacturer Swedish Match argues discriminates against snus because the EU allows all other tobacco products, including ...
Report: Swedish Match offered chance to bribe EU health commissioner
Report: Swedish Match offered chance to bribe EU health commissioner
Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter newspaper has published an audio recording of a conversation in which the friend of an EU commissioner requests a bribe of 60 million euro from Swedish Match in exchange for action to e...
Swedish Match CEO: ‘Don’t equate snus and cigarettes’
Swedish Match CEO: ‘Don’t equate snus and cigarettes’
The chief executive of Sweden’s leading snus producer Swedish Match has called for a public investigation into the health impact of snus in an opinion piece published on the website of Sweden’s state broadcast...