snus

[SJ]

but if it's waiting to be pickled in a jar (so that you can speak in the afterlife) then you could kiss it goodbye when you woke up?

[Mrs H.]

You mean in the canopic tradition - yes I suppose that is true - you could kiss it when ever you like then you could probably give it a name (if you could speak - which of course your won't be able to)

[ifititches]

just watch out for men with protruding upper lips!
http://www.medbroadcast.com/channel_hea ... ation_id=0

[helen]

well reading this is enough to put anyone off the stuff for life! well done!!

[Pinches]

blah blah blah.... in my experience it's a much more pleasent environment sitting in a room (read boozer) full of snusers than a room full of smokers.

[Nailest]

And if the proposed smoking ban takes effect, there could be an increased demand.

I sense a potential business opportunity.

[Ed]

lets face it, if the tongue rots away from the stuff it's not really a problem.

after all, the brain must have rotted away before you want to use it, anyway.

[SJ]

I suppose snus affects only the user whereas smoking makes other people breathe in smoke/smell of it for ages - and the litter from the used packets could only be as bad as cigarette butts. I'm not in favour of it but I would rather have a smaller proportion of Brits smoking and using snus instead. Having said that there will probably be a report in the future telling us that it harms unborn children, gives 25% of users cancer etc etc

[Mrs H.]

I agree this is a significant point in favour of snus for the rest of the population - is it expensive?

[brooner]

about 20kr for a tub of 20? something thereabouts anyway.

[ifititches]

Nailest hit nail (as it were)on the head If you believe in Snus, buy shares in Swedish Match now. Mega financial consequences for them if EU ban lifted.
What's the truth? As ever, research that's not published will be at least as important as that which is, and epidemiological studies are always hard to interpret . Google it and most blah blah is coming from the tobacco companies.
Not coming down on any side, just a trained cynic, who has seen enough of nicotine! Grandma (born 1887)used snuff regularly, lived to 91,and left me her snuff box, but that doesn't prove anything.
More blah, and a picture at:-http://www.tobaksfakta.org/files/70_Snusengelska.pdf
have a great summer

[ifititches]

oops, that was a banter-stopper!
Agree smoke-free socialising good,even if banter is with men with strangely protruding upper lips...(aka Homer Simpson?) but Swedish women appear not to have taken to snus, and have gone on smoking.So environment still smoky.
It's being sold to EU as the best "cigarette smoking cessation product" on the market on basis of "Swedish experience" (now that used to mean something different in 1970s!) but 1 in 2 male swedish users seem to want to give it up, find themselves hooked, and spend as much per year on it as they did on cigarettes.
strange or what?

[Drew]

seems i touched a nerve.