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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration left open the door on Wednesday for Swedish Match AB to claim its snus smokeless tobacco products represent a substantially lower risk to health than cigarettes.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Snus producer Swedish Match is taking the Norwegian state to court as it seeks an injunction to delay neutral packaging. A change in Norwegian law requiring all tobacco products to be given neutral ...