[Football] Snus - have you heard of it?

[Swansman]

Is it not a tobacco product then?

To be more accurate (according to a snus documentary I saw, not double-checked any sources) one tobacco company - BAT - saw the potential in snus in the 80s and aquired some Swedish snus producers. They realised they could possibly introduce it without harming their anyhow waning cigarette sales and pushed hard to make snus popular elsewhere, but the other four Big Tobacco companies feared that BAT were in a position to get a monopoly on a product that could be very popular and possibly turn into the go-to option for those quitting to smoke. So they "counter-lobbied" BAT and snus turned illegal in most European countries.

 

[Baldseagull]

To be more accurate (according to a snus documentary I saw, not double-checked any sources) one tobacco company - BAT - saw the potential in snus in the 80s and aquired some Swedish snus producers. They realised they could possibly introduce it without harming their anyhow waning cigarette sales and pushed hard to make snus popular elsewhere, but the other four Big Tobacco companies feared that BAT were in a position to get a monopoly on a product that could be very popular and possibly turn into the go-to option for those quitting to smoke. So they "counter-lobbied" BAT and snus turned illegal in most European countries.

Thanks for the explanation.

 

[RexCathedra]

I've heard of snu snu, but not snus.

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.

 

[Chopera]

Sounds like it's similar to Nicorette gum then. Which reminds of a mate of mine who managed to get addicted to smoking thanks to nicorette gum. He was slightly asthmatic and for that reason had always avoided smoking. So he used nicorettes instead to get a nicotene hit, gradually got addicted to the nicotene and ended up smoking cigarettes instead.

 

[Springal]

When Leicester won the PL - didn’t Vardy live on a diet of Snus & Red Bull?

 

[stewart12]

yeh I had some in Sweden

was horrible tbh

 

[AmexRuislip]

Double post!

 

[AmexRuislip]

https://fanbanter.co.uk/sunderland-...as-player-gets-gum-cancer-from-snus-addition/

Sunderland boss Lee Johnson has revealed to the media that he is worried as one player gets GUM CANCER from having a snus addition.