Snus, which means snuff in Swedish, is a flavored mini-teabag of pasteurized tobacco, sold chilled in tins.
Undiversified tobacco companies stand to lose if there were a mass migration to smokeless products like Snus.
The Directive proposes to continue (indeed strengthen) the prior ban on Swedish smokeless tobacco, known as snus.
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Analysts say Camel Snus looks like a surprise hit in an innovation-challenged industry.
Sweden has the lowest lung cancer rates in Europe, since so many adults there opt to Snus instead of smoke.
The spit-free Snus product is aimed at people on the coasts who wouldn't ever be caught dipping Copenhagen or Skoal.
Brown considers Snus and another new Camel invention, dissolvable nicotine mints called Orbs, as transparent attempts to market tobacco to children.
Snus users tend to be quitters or banned-at-work smokers who need a fix, but don't like wearing patches or chewing GlaxoSmithKline's Nicorette.
And switching from cigarettes to snus eliminates the risk of heart disease, lung cancer and the other systemic diseases related to smoking.
Snus is a pouch of tobacco that gives smokers the nicotine they crave without the myriad harmful chemicals that come from burning and inhaling tobacco.
Some say that all tobacco is dangerous, so why allow snus?
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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.
If the bill passes, we won't replicate the good news coming out of Sweden, where tobacco-related deaths plummeted when smokers switched from cigarettes to the less harmful snus, or smokeless tobacco.
The Swedish male population consumes more nicotine in the form of snus than from cigarettes and they have the lowest rate of smoking-related disease and death in Europe to show for it.
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The region is number one worldwide in the devastating effects of smoking with this exception: In Sweden, the only EU country where snus is not banned, only 16 percent of men smoke.
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The second point to consider is that since nicotine is an aid to maintaining a healthy weight, why are alleged health campaigners banning products like snus and e-cigarettes which not only get people off cigarettes but could control their weight as well?
Yet when Sweden was admitted into the EU in 1992, the continental ban on snus was in effect, and the country had to get an exemption to continue to manufacture and sell snus as long as it was marketed only in Sweden.
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