RICHMOND, Va. -- Swedish Match submitted a Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) application to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for eight sub-brands in its General snus product line. Snus, which ...

People who use Swedish moist snuff (snus) run twice the risk of developing cancer of the pancreas. This is the main result of a follow-up study conducted by Karolinska Institutet researchers amongst ...

Tobacco products group Swedish Match said on Wednesday it would increase investment in the United States and Scandinavia for ...

The New York Times has published (here) a reasonably accurate portrayal of the Swedish snus experience that I have chronicled for over a decade (here, here, and here). Reporters Matt Richtel and David ...

Speaking of snus, three members of the Swedish Parliament recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Swedish newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, requesting that the E.U. lift the ban against Swedish snus.

If you are getting started with snus, it’s likely that you have many questions running through your head – like what makes it different, how it compares to other products, where to get it, and so on.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - For Scandinavians snus is as Swedish as IKEA or ABBA, a popular and now elegantly-packaged smokeless tobacco that has transformed its image from a farmers' staple to a habit of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about issues at the intersection of medicine and culture. The good news is that the smoking rate has hit a new low. It is ...

Swedish "snus"- an oral, smoke free tobacco – has proven much less harmful to health than conventional smoking tobacco. Snus causes no increased risk for lung or mouth cancer for never-smokers and ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Swedish Match, a manufacturer of General Snus and tobacco ...

GOTEBORG, Sweden — Inside a waterfront factory soaked with the acrid smell of tobacco, about half the blue-clad workers show an odd facial deformity: Their upper lips look swollen. It’s a telltale ...

Josh Pedigo likes to spit. The 27-year-old handyman from North Carolina started using Skoal snuff when he was 10 years old, and now he spits even when he doesn't have a wad of tobacco in his lower lip ...