How did the manufacture of Swedish snus as we know it today, really begin? When and where did the idea arise, and who was there to write its history? Here at Snusdirect you can do more than just shop for snus, you can also enjoy a good read on the history behind Swedish snus.
This manufacturing process that was initially run by farmers was soon industrialized and a long line of brands and factories saw the light of day. This is only a fraction of the story of how snus came to be such a huge part of Swedish history.
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Debate has raged for years on whether snus is a suitable alternative to smoking. Snus is definitely high in nicotine, and the health effects of this addictive substance are not thought to be good. Poppy Logo. FB house promo. Sign Up for News Updates. Sign up. Not convinced? The results were not replicated in USA, where transitions between cigarettes and smokeless tobacco was infrequent [ 35 ].
Also, smoking cessation for dual users was not different from that of exclusive smokers, and even when the dual users were more likely to have tried to quit, they were found to relapse more quickly than the smokers [ 36 , 37 ].
In our study, the high rates of dual use with daily snus use and low frequent smoking in adulthood may be seen as a step on the way to exclusive snus use or non-use of tobacco. In line with this, the dual users in our cohort had a high probability to be snus only users in adulthood. Declining cigarette smoking, but stable rates of overall tobacco use and poly-tobacco use among youth, are reported from USA [ 38 ].
A Norwegian study found a potential for harm reduction with snus, but also a tendency to combine non-daily smoking and snus use [ 14 ]. In our study, the adolescent dual users seem to be clearly more dependent with lower RR of becoming non-users of tobacco in adulthood than the corresponding smokers or snus users.
Dual and poly-tobacco use has been associated with high risk adolescents and high levels of nicotine dependency in other countries as well [ 31 , 38 ]. A main impression across studies is that adolescent tobacco users seem to be more likely than adults to progress from snus to smoking. The studies also show that transitions between tobacco products vary between countries and are probably influenced both by their relative availability, the pattern of use in peers, marketing strategies for sale, and by national tobacco policies [ 39 , 40 ].
Snus users and smokers seem to have much of the same susceptibility to tobacco use, according to individual background factors. In this sense, one could speculate if adolescents who use snus might smoke if snus was not available [ 41 ]. Exclusive snus use in adolescence has been associated with psychosocial risk factors similar to smokers, but with healthier behaviour and higher academic orientation compared to smokers and dual users [ 1 ]. Similarly, the risk profile of snus users regarding social factors, lifestyle and health were found to lay between non-users of tobacco and smokers, being less favourable than those of non-users, but more advantageous than those of smokers [ 14 , 18 , 42 ].
Different risk profiles of snus users and smokers points to partly different user groups. In our study, this may explain a higher propensity of adolescent smokers than snus users to be smokers or dual users in young adulthood.
Nicotine dependence might explain a common propensity of future smoking as well as snus use. The quantities of delivered nicotine in snus are similar to cigarettes [ 7 ]. Easy access to sufficient amounts of nicotine from snus, as smoking in restaurants and bars was banned in , may have influenced the transition to snus in our cohort period. The use of other tobacco products, as hookah and cigarillos, are almost non-existing in Norway [ 17 ]. Electronic cigarettes with nicotine have not yet entered the market for sale.
The large full-scale population with a high participation rate as adolescents gave a representative sample in Young-HUNT1 at baseline. The broad range of demographic and behavioural measures in Young-HUNT1 allowed thorough examination of risk factors at baseline. Another strength was the long follow-up time and the possibility to examine the transitions into the more established tobacco use in young adulthood. The importance of including former smoking as baseline ovariates when studying predictors of future smoking has been addressed in several studies [ 27 , 33 ].
By incorporating former tobacco use in the predictor variables at baseline, the importance of early tobacco use for later use and dependence is taken into account [ 39 ]. The validity of self-reported tobacco use has been demonstrated among adolescents and adults [ 44 , 45 ].
However, we found some inconsistence in reported tobacco use between baseline and follow-up, which may indicate over reporting of occasional tobacco use among the adolescents at baseline. Those with the lowest levels of occasional use may have been more likely to forget about it. In an additional analysis where the inconsistent records were removed, we found an increase in the effect size for tobacco use transitions, indicating low levels of tobacco use among those with inconsistent answers.
The low participation rate in HUNT3 among our cohort participants from Young-HUNT1 was possibly affected by the setting of large population studies and the inclusion of both eligible and not eligible moved out of the county for education etc. However, to improve the response rate, non-responders in HUNT3 received a short version of the questionnaire by mail including core questions on health and lifestyle [ 15 ]. Other strategies to recruit participants to HUNT3 included information to the entire population in different news channels.
One main incentive of participating in HUNT3 may have been the benefit of a health check [ 16 ], obviously a bigger gain for older age groups than for the young men in our cohort. Participants lost to follow-up had higher prevalence of family members smoking and parental divorce than those in the study population, which may be indicators of lower socioeconomic status among non-participants [ 20 ]. A higher prevalence of smoking was found among those not attending follow-up, especially among the older age smokers.
Corresponding differences were small for snus users and dual users. Thus, a selection of too few, and perhaps less vulnerable smokers in our study population may have taken place. One implication of this is possibly an underestimation of the transitions to smoking and dual use in adulthood, rather than the opposite. In other aspects, we have no reason to believe that these data would differ much from national data.
For some purposes it is a limitation with cohort-data back to —97 and — Nevertheless, even when collected a decade back in time, our data have the benefits of following the adolescents into young adulthood in a time where smoking was still prevalent and snus use started to rise Additional file 5.
Norway was among the first countries to introduce new nicotine products with reduced harm potential [ 11 ]. Hence, this experience may be useful as a parallel to the recent introduction of e-cigarettes in many countries. A small glance at the mainly smoking women in the same cohort showed nearly no increase in the prevalence of smoking from adolescence to adulthood, combined with a modest increase of snus use and dual use at low levels Additional file 1. The men in our study population had similar smoking prevalence as the women in adulthood, dual use included.
The adolescent snus users and dual users conferred a high risk of being tobacco users in young adulthood. The extensive use of snus among the young boys in our study is followed by persistent dual use and smoking into adulthood.
The desired effect of snus in reducing smoking is not apparent, as tobacco use was escalating in men while fairly stable in women. This experience from a Norwegian population study reveals possible disadvantages of the access to new nicotine products. Risk and protective factors of adolescent exclusive snus users compared to non-users of tobacco, exclusive smokers and dual users of snus and cigarettes.
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