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.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who use a smokeless form of tobacco known as "snus" may have a risk of stillbirth on par with women who smoke cigarettes, a large study of Swedish women ...

BRUSSELS — It was on the last day of May, a little after 5:00 p.m., when 20 or so men and women filed into a small room inside the European Parliament for a private event and packed into neatly ...

Experts are warning of the dangers of an addictive tobacco product that has been found to be prevalent among professional football players. A new study suggests that around one in five professional ...

Sweden is expected to become Europe's first smoke-free country thanks to the popularity of 'snus'. But some are worried that the moist tobacco is a fairytale too good to be true. Used by one in seven ...

The smoking rate in Sweden is the lowest in Europe (between 5 and 6%) and the percentage is expected to continue to drop. As snus is implemented, the country seeks to become the first to eradicate ...

New data analysis presented today at the annual Global Forum on Nicotone (GFN) meeting demonstrates the potential of the low-risk tobacco product snus in reducing the impact of tobacco-related disease ...

WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the first new tobacco products for the U.S. market, under a system authorized more than 5 years ago. The agency on Tuesday cleared ...

Snus looks like small tea bags that contain moist snuff. Users place the pouches between their cheek or teeth and gums, and the nicotine releases over time. It’s less messy that some other forms of ...