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In Sweden, use of snus pouch tobacco has replaced the smoking habit for a growing number of people, and U.S. cigarette-makers are dipping into the product
Jump to full article: Chicago Tribune, 2007-09-15
Author: Tom Hundley
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The trouble is, if we say that snus is less harmful than cigarettes, it is perceived as being a little less harmful. In reality, snus is much less harmful.
Lars Ramstrom, director of the Institute for Tobacco Studies in Stockholm.
Snus is less dangerous than cigarettes, for sure, but it is very hard to find anything more dangerous than cigarettes. . . . [T]here is no natural law that says 30 percent of the population should be nicotine addicts.
Goran Pershagen, a professor of environmental hygiene at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute.
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