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Assessment of Swedish snus for tobacco harm reduction
Assessment of Swedish snus for tobacco harm reduction: an epidemiological modelling study. Background Swedish snus is a smokeless tobacco product that has been suggested as a tobacco harm reduction product. Our aim was to assess the potential population health effects of snus.

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European Parliament slammed over tobacco talks
The European Parliament’s decision to host British American Tobacco’s conference on social corporate responsibility earlier this year has come under fire from medical organisations. They say that the company cannot be trusted to deliver in this area. Rob Hyde investigates.

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Harm reduction, and nicotine product regulation
Tobacco smoking, harm reduction, and nicotine product regulation. Cigarette smoking is highly addictive, widely prevalent, and very hazardous. Smoking killed 100 million people in the 20th century,1 and is predicted to kill 1 billion in the 21st century.

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Health issues with Snus
Snus has been popular in Sweden since the 1970s, allowing long-term research into its use and harm reduction potential. A long-term study, , published in June 2007 in the British medical journal Lancet, begun in 1978 by Dr. Olof Nyren and his colleagues at the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute and involving 280,000 Swedish male construction workers, found no increased risk of lung or oral cancer among snus users compared to people who had never smoked.

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Mixed feelings on snus
Public health often requires balancing risks and benefits and this can be complex, especially with tobacco. Some recent manoeuvres by the tobacco industry exemplify a topical dilemma, typical of what can be done, and can be claimed, by an industry whose product contents are almost completely unregulated.

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Quit Smoking with Swedish Snus
About 90% of the smokers who try to quit smoking fails and the biggest reason are because of the addiction to nicotine. A cigarette delivers a higher initial nicotine kick than Snus but overall you get more nicotine from Swedish Snus.

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Smokeless tobacco for cigarette cessation?
Although Dorothy Hatsukami and colleagues’ Seminar on tobacco addiction (June 14, p 2027)1 purports to be a thorough review of this complex and important topic, I was disappointed to find no information on use of smokeless tobacco to assist addicted smokers to quit.

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Snus - what should the public-health response be?
Cigarettes account for 96% of global sales of manufactured tobacco by value, and global cigarette production continues to increase dramatically (eg, from 1686 billion cigarettes in 1950 to 5604 billion in 2002).1 Snus, a form of smokeless tobacco that has lower levels of many toxins than most other smokeless tobaccos, has become the dominant form of tobacco used by Swedish men, who now have an unusually low smoking rate.

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Study on the risks of smoking and snus use.
Snuffing, Smoking and the risk for heart disease and other vascular diseases. Smoking increases the risk of myocardial infarction, sudden death, stroke and peripheral  artery disease of the legs by 2-4 times.

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Swedish moist snuff (snus) and the risk for cancer
Oral use of Swedish moist snuff (snus) and risk for cancer of the mouth, lung, and pancreas in male construction workers: a retrospective cohort study.

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Systematic review of the health effects of modified smokeless tobacco products
The review was undertaken by Marita Broadstock (NZHTA Research Fellow) who designed the review methodology, selected articles for retrieval, applied selection criteria, conducted the critical appraisals, wrote the report, and coordinated the review.

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