Snus & Tobacco Research Studies & Resources

Links to Snus Studies & Other Resourses

•   The Relative Risks of a Low-Nitrosamine Smokeless Tobacco Product Compared with Smoking Cigarettes: Estimates of a Panel of Experts
  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention Vol. 13, 2035-2042, December 2004

•   Is Low-Nicotine Marlboro Snus really Snus?
  An article by Jonathan Foulds and Helena Furberg on low-nicotine Marlboro snus. Larry Waters has actually made the same case on Marlboro and by extension most American snus brilliantly with more detail and piercing insights. He d oes not have the educational credentials of Foulds and Furberg so now you can rest assured Larry and his articles are correct.

•   Smokeless tobacco for cigarette cessation? – Authors' reply
  Affiliations:
  • Tobacco Use Research Center, University of Minnesota, 2701 University Avenue SE, #201, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA
  • Oxford University, Department of Primary Health Care, Oxford, UK
  • Healis Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health, Mumbai, India

•   Adding harm reduction to tobacco control
  The Lancet® is a registered trademark of Elsevier Properties S.A. used under licence.

  The content on this site is intended for health professionals.

•   Oral use of Swedish moist snuff (snus) and risk for cancer of the mouth, lung, and pancreas in male construction workers: a retrospective cohort study
  Affiliations:
  • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Box 281, SE 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Box 281, SE 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Cancer Institute Research Center, Medical Sciences/University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
  • Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

•   Smokeless tobacco for cigarette cessation?
  Affiliations:
  • American Council on Science and Health, 1995 Broadway, New York, NY 10023, USA

•   Effect of smokeless tobacco (snus) on smoking and public health in Sweden
  Authors’ affiliations:

  J Foulds, M Burke, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Public Health, Tobacco Dependence Program, New Brunswick,New Jersey, USAL Ramstrom, Institute for Tobacco Studies, Stockholm, SwedenK Fagerström, Fagerstrom Consulting and The Smokers InformationCenter, Helsingborg, Sweden

•   Swedish National Institute of Public Health
  Among other responsibilities, the Swedish Government has charged SNIPH with oversight of the Swedish snus industry.

•   Response to: Enabling Good Health for A reflection process for a new EU Health Strategy
  Report prepared for and found on the EU website by Institute for Tobacco Studies,Director and Principal Investigator, Lars M. Ramström Ph.D.

•   Response to: EU Green Paper; Toward a Europe Free From Tobacco Smoke: Policy Options at the EU Level
  International Smokeless Tobacco Company Inc. submission to relation to EU Green Paper, 1 May 2007

•   Questions from the Austrian Smokers Network to the EU Health Commission
  While published on the EU website, the studies sighted made the European Commission on Health uncomfortable enough to put a disclaimer at the end of the questions.

•   Swedish Tobacco Use: Smoking, Smokeless, and History
  Dr. Rodu is a professor of pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

•   Should doctors advocate snus and other nicotine replacements? Yes
  John Britton professor of epidemiology, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB

•   Tobacco Harm Reduction Products Work, Study Shows
  Written By: Dr. Sanjit Bagchi
  • Published In: Health Care News > September 2007
  • Publication date: 09/01/2007
  • Publisher: The Heartland Institute

•   Helping Smokers Quit: A Role for Smokeless Tobacco?
  • Written By: Kathleen Meister, M.A.
  • Published In: News Releases > 2006
  • Publication date: 10/01/2006
  • Publisher: American Council on Science and Health

•   Why Is Science Being Ignored?
  Written By: Nick Baker
  • Published In: Research & Commentary > 2007
  • Publication date: 02/26/2008
  • Publisher: The Heartland Institute

•   You might as well smoke; the misleading and harmful public message about smokeless tobacco
  by: Carl V Phillips*1,2,3, Constance Wang2 and Brian Guenzel3

  Address: 1University of Texas Medical School, Center for Clinical Research and Evidence Based Medicine, Houston, USA, 2University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, USA and 3Center for Philosophy, Health, and Policy Sciences, Inc., 10923 Atwell Dr, Houston, TX 77096, USA

•   Tobacco and Tobacco Products at a Crossroads in the 21st Century
  Written By: Scott D. Ballin
  • Published In:
  • Publication date: 08/01/2006
  • Publisher: The Eudoxa

•   Harm Reduction Update - Let's Have An Honest and Objective Debate
  • Written By: Ed Whitfield
  • Publication date: 05/15/2003
  • Publisher: Congress of the United States House of Representatives

•   Give Facts A Chance: How a Campaign of Misinformation Deprives American Smokers of Facts They Should Hear About Smokeless Tobacco
  • Written By: Dr. Brad Rodu
  • Published In: Organization Trends
  • Publication date: 07/01/2004
  • Publisher: Capital Research Center

•   Tobacco Harm Reduction Emerges as Viable Public Health Strategy
  • Written By: Sean Parnell
  • Published In: Health Care News > September 2005
  • Publication date: 09/01/2005

•   Deconstructing anti-harm-reduction metaphors; mortality risk from falls and other traumatic injuries compared to smokeless tobacco use
  • Published: 18 April 2006
  • Harm Reduction Journal 2006, 3:15 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-3-15
  • Received: 19 September 2005
  • Accepted: 18 April 2006
  • © 2006 Phillips et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

  This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

•   Smoking Reduction/Cessation through Snus: SM 07-01
  Serbian Trials: The study aims to assess if use of a low-nitrosamine, Swedish, smokefree tobacco product for oral use ("snus") can increase the quit rate among cigarette smokers who wish to stop smoking

•   Nicotine uptake from snus
  GothiaTek® > Research Reports > Nicotine uptake

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•   Surveillance of moist snuff: total nicotine, moisture, pH, un-ionized nicotine, and tobacco-specific nitrosamines.
  Richter P, Hodge K, Stanfill S, Zhang L, Watson C. Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA. pirl@cdc.gov