Tob Control 2001;10:253-257 ( Autumn )

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Swedish Match Company, Swedish snus and public health: a harm reduction experiment in progress?

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The most powerful means to reduce the diseases caused by tobacco use are to prevent the initiation of use and to help users to achieve complete and lasting abstinence. For tobacco users who are unwilling or unable to completely give up their tobacco use, the possibility is increasingly being considered that such persons might be able to reduce their risk of disease and premature mortality by reducing their exposure to tobacco toxins. This conclusion may seem obvious, and various expert panels have repeatedly issued guidance based on these observations.^1-5 Nonetheless, this public health strategy has been controversial because the purveyors of tobacco products have generally used the guidance as a tool to undermine public health efforts to prevent the initiation of tobacco use and facilitate cessation in those who use the products.^2 6-9 Furthermore, even in cigarette smokers who have switched to cigarettes advertised as "low tar" or "light" the health . . . [Full text of this article]

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