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“Snus causes cancer” – health institute
Source: thelocal.se Author: Staff Swedish snus causes cancer and increases the risk of death from heart disease, according to the National Institute of Public Health. The warning, which will concern many Swedes who have turned to snus as a healthier nicotine alternative to smoking, is based on the institute’s analysis of epidemiological and experimental studies carried out by the Karolinska [...]
Continue reading...Kids may mistake new tobacco products for candy
Friday, January 15, 2010
Source: Clippertoday.com Author: Melinda Williams FARMINGTON — New tobacco products often look like candy, and their packaging may look like cell phones or other electronics. “But there’s no such thing as a safe tobacco product,” Davis County health educator Isa Kaluhikaua told Board of Health members Tuesday. Kaluhikaua brought examples of smoking alternatives to show board members, most [...]
Continue reading...New survey shows slow decline in youth smoking, troubling increase in smokeless tobacco use – congress, states must step up tobacco prevention efforts
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Source: www.streetinsider.com Author: staff The 2009 Monitoring the Future Survey released today by the National Institute of Drug Abuse shows that the nation continues to make gradual progress in reducing youth smoking, but declines have slowed significantly compared to the dramatic gains early in the decade. In especially troubling news, the survey also finds that smokeless tobacco [...]
Continue reading...Quitting cigarettes completely or switching to smokeless tobacco: do US data replicate the Swedish results?
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Source: Tob Control 2009;18:82-87 doi:10.1136/tc.2008.028209 Authors: S-H Zhu et al. Background: Swedish male smokers are more likely than female smokers to switch to smokeless tobacco (snus) and males’ smoking cessation rate is higher than that of females. These results have fuelled international debate over promoting smokeless tobacco for harm reduction. This study examines whether similar results emerge in [...]
Continue reading...Maker of Camels buys cigarette replacement seller
Friday, December 4, 2009
Source: townhall.com Author: staff Cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. has reached a deal to acquire a Swedish company whose nicotine gum, pouches and spray help people stop smoking, the second-largest U.S. tobacco company said Wednesday. The acquisition will let Reynolds offer products that can “reduce the risks of diseases and death caused by tobacco use,” CEO Susan M. [...]
Continue reading...Swedish snuff more addicting?
Monday, October 26, 2009
Source: www.upi.com Author: staff A Swedish tobacco company adds a substance to snuff products to heighten dependency, an investigative report concluded. The usual level for snuff or ’snus’ is eight milligrams per gram but double that amount was found in one product produced by Swedish Match, the news program Kalla Fakta reported. The report alleges that Swedish Match [...]
Continue reading...Big Tobacco still targets teenagers
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Source: www.postbulletin.com Author: staff A couple of months ago I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in years. I didn’t recognize him. A once solid and athletic guy, now in his late 40s, he’d lost more than 50 pounds and his skin was the color of fireplace ash. A long, thin scar ran from his jaw [...]
Continue reading...New tobacco product prompts concerns… No it’s not Marlboro…
Monday, October 5, 2009
Source: www.us-marlboro.com Author: staff Sweden brought us meatballs, the Nobel prize, Ikea, the Saab and the Volvo. But the country’s latest mark on the U.S. is not so benign: an oral tobacco product known as snus. The moist tobacco, which comes in a tea-bag-style pouch that goes under the upper lip, has public health experts divided. Some say [...]
Continue reading...Altria to introduce new Marlboro snus and other smokeless tobaccos
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Source: www.us-marlboro.com Author: staff In conformity with the recently revealed marketing strategy, Phillip Morris USA has been focused on developing and introducing new extensions of company’s flagship brands Marlboro, L&M and smokeless products, said Michael E. Szymanczyk, chairman of Altria Group, the owner of Philip Morris. Altria also is eager to increase its leading position in the constantly [...]
Continue reading...A different camel is back in the glossies
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Source: nytimes.com Author: Andrew Adam Newman The two largest tobacco companies in the United States voluntarily stopped advertising cigarettes in magazines, with Philip Morris, whose brands include Marlboro, ceasing in 2005 and R. J. Reynolds, whose brands include Camel, at the beginning of 2008. Now the Camel logo is back prominently in major glossies, including Rolling Stone, Sports [...]
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- Snus news & other tobacco products
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- R. J. Reynolds introducing 'dissolvable' tobacco
- Smoking debate has become nicotine-delivery debate
- Israeli study sees link between oral cancer, cell phones
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- Why men’s health is a feminist issue
- BT Pharma secures EUR 13.1million (USD 17.7 million) in capital funding and changes its name to Genticel
- Cancer survivor tells his experience with smokeless tobacco
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