SNUS BAN MAYBE LIFTED AFTER EXPERT HEALTH OPINION FROM EU SCIENTISTS
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EXPERT scientific report from the European Commission has suddenly made it respectable to talk once again about lifting the European Union (EU) ban on snus, the smokeless tobacco product from Sweden whose sale in other member states has been prohibited by an EU directive since 1992. The EU's Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) issued the report in February following a study undertaken at the Commission's request into the health effects of smokeless tobacco products "with particular attention to ...
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