Tag "smokeless tobacco"

Larry Waters Reports!

US distribution of mystery product ZYN nt Tobacco-free Nicotine Pouches expands

Swedish Match North America (SMNA) is dramatically expanding the availability of ZYN nt tobacco-free nicotine pouch products into the western United States.  Three questions come immediately to mind:  1) What

Larry Waters Reports!

Shocking: Medical News Today Says Snus Causes Cancer

Snus causes cancer?  Here we go again.  Yvette Brazier writing for anti-tobacco Medical News Today published yet another biased article with cherry-picked data, gaping information holes, and fuzzy logic attempting

Larry Waters Reports!

Snus Shake-up at Swedish Match!

Swedish Snus giant Swedish Match is making some major changes to it’s snus line-up for 2015.  There will be new snus products starting this week and some current snuses will

Larry Waters Reports!

Swedish Match Snus Store in Gothenburg Grand Opening!

Today marks the Grand Opening of the latest Swedish Match snus store in Gothenburg. It joins the original in Stockholm and store in Strömstad as showcases of the Swedish Match

Legislation

Podcast: Why YOU have to support the General Snus MRTP application

 The General Snus Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) application to FDA was the subject of this call to action for snus users in the USA.  Swedish Snus Ambassador to the

Larry Waters Reports!

Swedish Match, FDA, General Snus, and Modified Risk Tobacco Products: What does it mean?

UPDATED 27 Aug 2014:  Two months ago, Swedish Snus giant Swedish Match presented FDA with a formal application that the General Snus products sold over-the-counter (OTC) in the United States

Larry Waters Reports!

FDA Approves Eight Swedish Match Smokeless Tobacco Products

Today, FDA announced it was authorizing the sale and marketing of eight Swedish Match smokeless tobacco products in the US.  These first eight are not in the snus category but

Mick Hellwig - Snus, Snuff, and Stuff

Makla Snuff, or Things I put in my mouth for you people

This is not Swedish Snus….. Since the PACT Act forced NicotineRush to stop delivering nicotine, my new non-snus supplier is MrSnuff.(Late Breaking News. NicotineRush is back in business, shipping is

Mick Hellwig - Snus, Snuff, and Stuff

Snus Warriors

First off I’d like to apologize to my faithful readers for such a long absence from these pages. Launching The Snuff Taker’s Ephemeris magazine and working full time has kept

Op Ed & Guest Columnists

Tobacco Harm Reduction Update – Bill Godshall

FDA Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) members flaunt conflicts of interestsCiting a lack of scientific evidence, drug industry funded consultants (including three members of FDA’s TPSAC) advocate more research

Larry Waters Reports!

Triumph Snus KILLED by Lorillard

Don’t look for Triumph Snus anymore. The rumors that Triumph Snus was discontinued are true.   Lorillard confirmed on Monday that they were de-listing the brand, getting out of the

SnusCENTRAL Snus Reviews

Ettan snus, reviewing an old snus family tradition in Sweden!

Welcome back snus lovers! I recently took advantage of the beautiful weather and decided to take a walk in my favorite gardens to figure out which snus we should discuss

Larry Waters Reports!

How will FDA Regulation of Tobacco affect YOU?

Regulation of Tobacco: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act There have been many questions and much confusion concerning the Kennedy/Waxman legislation since it became law on June 22, 2009. 

Op Ed & Guest Columnists

Dr. Brad Rodu on Reduced Harm Tobacco

Dr. Brad Rodu is one of the pioneers in establishing that Reduced Harm products such as any form of smokeless tobacco including snus and Swedish Snus are, as he said

Larry Waters Reports!

Is FDA Control of Tobacco Unconstitutional and Other Feedback

or, other than Philip Morris, did anyone in Congress or the White House even READ Kennedy/Waxman before it became the Law of the Land? Any rational person reading the Kennedy/Waxman

Larry Waters Reports!

Kennedy/Waxman Tobacco Sell-Out – Opposed by R.J. Reynolds, SnusCENTRAL.org and Larry Waters?!

Kennedy/Waxman, S. 982, HR 1256; all very innocuous names for one of the most destructive bills to American Health Care which ever slithered through Congress.  Lets call this legislation by

Press Releases

Snus Diplomacy Crisis: SnusCENTRAL’s Larry Waters heading for Sweden

Negotiations between Swedish Match AB,  and SnusCENTRAL.org over the alleged detention of Swedish Match officials Joakim Blom and Markus Ersmark at the Snus Central Command Bunker experienced an unexpected breakthrough

Andrew Romeo – An Insider’s Perspective

I’m in Sweden…Where’s my snus?!

I always track the consumer and expert reviews of all the new types of snus which hit the market both here on SnusCENTRAL, and on other snus related forums inhabited

Larry Waters Reports!

EXCLUSIVE: Snus Review – Phantom White Portion Snus and more V2 Tobacco Snus News

For the last two days, I’ve been using a snus I’m pretty confident most of you aren’t:  Phantom Classic White Portion Snus by V2 Tobacco.  The reason for my confidence? 

Europe and US Snus

Swedes accuse European Union of snuffing out smokeless tobacco

This article by By Louise Nordstrom, of The Associated Press for Yahoo! Canada expresses the well justified frustration Sweden has with the EU over the Snus Ban of 1992. SnusCENTRAL.org