{"id":6534,"date":"2016-03-01T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snusforumet.se\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2022-07-29T09:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T07:06:01","slug":"swedish-match-ceo-dont-equate-snus-and-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snusforumet.se\/en\/swedish-match-ceo-dont-equate-snus-and-cigarettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Match CEO: &#8216;Don&#8217;t equate snus and cigarettes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The chief executive of Sweden\u2019s 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\u2019s state broadcaster SVT.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the article Lars Dahlgren invites politicians in Sweden\u2019s government and the Swedish Public Health Agency to look again at snus, arguing that there are many misconceptions about the product and its contents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLong before we stopped selling cigarettes, almost two decades ago, we began to greatly reduce the unwanted substances in snus,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis includes substances that are found in virtually all cultivated crops and naturally found in the soil and then taken up by plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJust 100 grams of grilled meat contains as much benz (a) pyrene as 18 snus packages.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the article (in Swedish) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/opinion\/lars-dahlgren-om-tobak\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief executive of Sweden\u2019s leading snus producer Swedish Match has called for a public investigation into the health impact of snus in an opinion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[499,308],"class_list":["post-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-lars-dahlgren-2","tag-swedish-match-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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