Sweden has long made it a goal to have a smoke-free society, pushing snus and smokeless nicotine products as a safer ...

By Lucía Tedesco via El Planteo. Sweden seeks to eradicate smoking by means of snus, a product that contains tobacco but without combustion. In the U.S., it is basically known as nicotine pouches.

Snus, which is a smokeless tobacco product traditionally found in Scandinavia, is currently available in more than 20,000 stores in the United States, as CSNews Online previously reported.

Some studies indicate that tobacco snus can increase the risk of stomach, pancreatic, and rectal and esophagus cancers.

Growing numbers of young people are using these highly addictive - but almost completely unregulated - products.

The FDA first authorized General snus products as “appropriate for the protection of the public health” in 2015 through its premarket tobacco product application process.

Men long switched from smoking to snus in larger numbers. With modern pouches, women's smoking rate has begun falling faster ...

FDA Grants Reauthorization To Swedish Match's General Snus As Modified Risk Tobacco Product November 11, 2024 — 09:09 pm EST Written by RTTNews.com for RTTNews -> ...

Researchers used latent class analysis to identify which tobacco product — cigarette, electronic-nicotine delivery systems, traditional cigar, cigarillo/filtered cigar, pipe, hookah, snus ...

The U.S. push is part of a move by the company to promote products like snus -- and possibly e-cigarettes -- under a banner of "harm reduction", having sold its own cigarette business 15 years ago.

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FDA reauthorizes Swedish Match’s General snus as Modified Risk Tobacco Product November 11, 2024 — 08:20 pm EST Written by TheFly for TipRanks -> ...