Smoking Ban made Smokeless Tobacco Products Famous

Tobacco products were and are on the top of the anti-tobacco researchers studies. But with smoking ban, tobacco industry started to produce smokeless tobacco products. Because all tobacco products were prohibited in public places, smoke-free cigarettes became popular. 

This report is an effort in order to analyzing smokeless tobacco industry globally as well in its regional markets.

In Sweden, one of the many other smokeless products is called Snus. Snus is a moist ground tobacco that a user tucks between the cheek and the gum. Unlike chewing tobacco and moist smokeless tobacco, snus requires no spitting. Snus is popular in Sweden, that’s why this country has the lowest smoking rates in Europe. It also has fewer incidences than its neighbors of smoking-related diseases, including lung and oral cancer.

This name is not new to the world, as it dates back to the 1700s or even before. Lately the smokeless tobacco industry has collected steam, partially due to the smoking bans in various part of the world, as it is handier to consume tobacco in smokeless form than through cigarettes, especially where smoking is prohibited.

Smokeless tobacco products, snuff and chewing tobacco are consumed almost in every part of the world, but, in different forms. For example, in the Scandinavian countries smokeless tobacco products are used more like snus, and snuff in rest of Europe and in the US.

The smokeless category still accounts for a very small share of the tobacco industry, but it is growing as against the declining sales of cigarettes. Apart from the existing players in this market, the tobacco chiefs are entering this category in a big way, through introduction of their own brands of smokeless tobacco.

According to a lot of studies, tobacco is in any form associated with diseases and health hazards and smokeless is no exception, and so snus is being banned in most part of the European Union. For example, Snus is not without its dangers. It contains nicotine, which speeds the metabolism, and is as addictive as cigarettes. It has also been linked in a recent clinical trial to pancreatic cancer, though, unlike cigarettes, not to lung or mouth cancers.

But not everyone who takes up snus is a smoker. And not every smoker stops when they use it. An estimated 5 percent of Swedish men have quit smoking altogether in favor of snus.