{"id":5267,"date":"2021-06-11T08:56:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T06:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snusforumet.se\/?p=5267"},"modified":"2021-06-11T08:56:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T06:56:51","slug":"eu-nicotine-users-survey-3-of-10-eu-smokers-would-switch-to-snus-if-it-were-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snusforumet.se\/en\/eu-nicotine-users-survey-3-of-10-eu-smokers-would-switch-to-snus-if-it-were-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Nicotine Users Survey: 3 of 10 EU smokers would switch to snus if it were legal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Nearly a third of EU smokers would consider switching to snus if it were legal, the results of the EU Nicotine Users Survey reveal.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey found that 31 percent of smokers who want to quit indicated they would be willing to try snus were the current EU ban to be lifted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings, based on more than 35,000 responses to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ethra.co\/news\/80-ethra-eu-nicotine-users-survey-report\">EU Nicotine Users Survey<\/a>, also show that 73.7 percent of European snus users were former smokers. And 75 percent of snus users cited harm reduction as their primary reason for choosing snus. The second most cited reason was quitting or reducing smoking (61 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis survey adds to the growing body of evidence that availability of less harmful nicotine alternatives like snus is critical to helping people successfully quit smoking,\u201d says Patrik Str\u00f6mer, Secretary General of the Association of Swedish Snus Manufacturers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHopefully it will help strengthen the voice of nicotine consumers and get policymakers to start paying more attention to the harm reduction potential of snus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EU Nicotine Users Survey: snus helps smokers quit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking specifically at Sweden &#8211; the one EU country where snus is legal and widely used &#8211; the survey found that 85.6 percent of Swedish snus users who had smoked at one time managed to quit smoking altogether thanks to snus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when asked about effective aids they used for quitting smoking, 43.3 percent of Swedish ex-smokers in the survey mentioned snus and\/or nicotine pouches.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conducted from October to December 2020 by the European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (<a href=\"https:\/\/ethra.co\/\">ETHRA<\/a>), the EU Nicotine Users Survey confirms there is an \u201cunstoppable movement\u201d toward tobacco harm reduction across Europe, the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ETHRA: lift EU snus ban<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In light of the EU Nicotine Users Survey findings, ETHRA published several recommendations, first among them being lifting the EU\u2019s snus ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSnus permits Swedish nicotine users to opt for a harm reduction path, which has led to the largest decline in smoking-related diseases in the EU,\u201d ETHRA writes in its recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven if only a fraction of smokers adopted snus, it would reduce the burden of smoking-related illness and premature death for millions of Europeans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LEARN MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/snusforumet.se\/fakta\/the-swedish-experience\/\">The Swedish Experience with tobacco<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other recommendations from ETHRA include repealing the 10 ml limit on e-liquid bottles and increasing the nicotine concentration limit of e-liquids.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group also wants to curtail additional vaping taxes, vape flavour bans, and state sales monopolies, which they see as \u201cbarriers to smoking cessation\u201d that force consumers to the black market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, ETHRA urged European authorities to \u201cprovide honest, open and accessible information\u201d about safer alternatives to smoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a third of EU smokers would consider switching to snus if it were legal, the results of the EU Nicotine Users Survey reveal.&nbsp; The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,218],"tags":[259,258,296,271],"class_list":["post-5267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","category-regulations","tag-ethra-2","tag-eu-2","tag-nicotine-2","tag-snus-ban"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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