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Tobacco Control 2006;15:4-5
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News analysis

Sweden: ads snuffed out

Carl-Olof Rydén

Editor, www.tobaksfakta.org, Sweden c-o.ryden@telia.com

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Scanorama, the in-flight magazine of the Scandinavian airline SAS, is to stop carrying advertisements for Swedish oral snuff, snus. That commitment was made by chief editor Jan Kotschack in response to an inquiry from the Swedish Consumer Agency (SCA), a government agency, after three advertisements for snus in the July/August 2005 edition of the magazine were reported for violating the Swedish tobacco law.

A written statement issued by SCA on 1 November pointed out that the marketing of tobacco products with commercial announcements in periodical publications is prohibited under the law. Mr Kotschack replied that SAS Media, publisher of Scanorama, did not completely agree with SCA that the snus advertisements violated the law, in view of the magazine being distributed primarily on international flights and its contents, although focusing on Scandinavian issues, being directed primarily to an international audience.

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