It had been known for almost a decade that switching from smoking to smokeless tobacco is a life-saver.

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Thanks to snus, moist smokeless tobacco in small pouches, Swedish men have the lowest smoking rate and the lowest rate of smoking-related disease and death in Europe.

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The risk of oral cancer from smokeless tobacco is low--far lower than the oral cancer risk from smoking cigarettes.

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