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- Title
Snus: part of the problem or part of the solution?
- Authors
RAMSTRÖM, LARS
- Abstract
The recognition of tobacco dependence as a disorder due to use of a psychoactive substance, nicotine, has led to a growing awareness that total eradication of nicotine use may not be a realistic goal. Therefore, reduction of tobacco-related ill health should not rely entirely on total abstinence from nicotine but also include options for nicotine delivery in a less harmful form than smoking. Since the major harmful exposure from cigarettes comes from combustion products, a great deal of interest has been given to non-combustible tobacco products, especially snus, a Sweden-specific kind of moist oral snuff. This is because Swedish men have been combining record high consumption of snus and record low levels of tobacco related illness. Data illustrate that there is no ground for the widespread myth that snus use would constitute an 'overload' of nicotine compared with smoking. Not even dual use of cigarettes and snus represents any overload. First of all, dual daily use is very rare in Sweden, prevalence rate being around 2%; secondly, these smokers have lower than average cigarette consumption.
- Publication
Addiction, 2003, Vol 98, Issue 9, p1198
- ISSN
0965-2140
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00477.x