Talk:Snus

Debate among Public Health researchers

Hi, all. Just added this section, among a couple smaller edits and two additional links. I'm a new Wikipedia author, and tried to keep it NPOV, but I welcome any edits for clarity and neutrality. As a recent convert from cigarettes to snus who orders it from Sweden for shipment to the US, I want to make sure that the research, which shows that Snus is a viable and safer (and less stinky) alternative to smoking, is available to those who seek it. I will also attempt to find and add any references to resarch which opposes these findings. --NightMonkey 07:20, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

Why is this article at Snus? Is this really a more commonly-known name for Snuff? Rick K 21:24, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)

Why snus?

While Snus is often referred to as snuff, it goes through a very different manufacturing process than, say, American chewing tobacco (Mail Pouch) or American snuff (like Copenhagen, Skoal, et al). And since this is a process crafted by the Swedes, they get the right to name this form of tobacco... Also significant is the research indiciating a significant and favorable difference in cancer rates and other tobacco-related health effects in snus, which are still present in other forms of tobacco, including other forms of snuff. --NightMonkey 18:59, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

Then it is NOT sometimes called snuff, and I will delete that. Rick K 19:15, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

Well, it _is_ sometimes called snuff, generally outside Sweden. It's more that it is considered a form of snuff, rather than the only snuff (or the Swedish word for snuff). I do believe that it is a bit confusing for non-Swedish readers, since snuff is most often associated with tobacco that is snorted, rather than this form which is used more like chewing tobacco. Also, historically, Swedish snus was, in the 18th and 19th centuries, snorted, IIRC, which only adds to the confusion. --NightMonkey 23:44, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

Health warnings

I lived in sweden for a while and on my packets of snus that I bought, most of them had a warning stating 'this tobacco product can harm your health and is addictive' (in swedish, obviously). I asked a friend of mine about the indirect wording on it and he said that they used to say that snus caused cancer but they had to change it because some study couldn't prove it did cause cancer. Has anyone else heard about this? zaius 15:19, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)