They speculated that promoting other tobacco products, such
as snus, as safer may not encourage smokers to switch products but instead encourage new product uptake for both smokers and nonsmokers.
Not exact matches
50 % of respondents said that methanol cigarettes, hookah, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and
snus were about
as risky
as cigarettes.
As you say, this is likely linked to 18 per cent of Swedish men using snus as a smoking substitut
As you say, this is likely linked to 18 per cent of Swedish men using
snus as a smoking substitut
as a smoking substitute.
In 2015, for example, the TPSAC expressed concerns about consumer confusion in an application to market «
snus» (a smokeless tobacco product placed between the lip and gum)
as a safer alternative to cigarettes.
And yet consumers who refrain from using
snus after reading the stronger warning might instead — and wrongly — view cigarettes
as equally healthy (or healthier), precisely because of the warning.