Tobacco harm reduction with snus:

Tobacco is not deadly - the harm is in the smoke. A policy that confuses innocuous tobacco with harmful smoke is responsible for millions of avoidable deaths each year worldwide.

The best advice for health concerned smokers has been and remains to quit. But what about smokers who, for whatever reason, are either unwilling or unable to quit completely? Suggesting that smokers have an option other than quitting entirely is controversial, but it should not be.

Good policy toward tobacco use would reduce the grave harm of smoking by replacing cigarettes with non-smoked forms of nicotine for the addicts like snus.

These products include mini-rolls of tobacco, chewing tobacco and snus. Using pharmaceutical nicotine products would probably provide a similar reduction, but unfortunately the available nicotine patches and gums are not designed to be good long-term alternatives to tobacco.

Using modern snus products can reduce the risks of tobacco use by about 90% compared to smoking, is a expert panel saying. The expert panel has members from:
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland
Department of Economics, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York.
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Cancer Center, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California.
Smoking and Health Action Foundation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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