WASHINGTON -- For the first time, U.S. health regulators have judged a type of smokeless tobacco to be less harmful than cigarettes, a decision that could open the door to other less risky options for ...

Oral nicotine pouches and related 'snus' tobacco pouches are marketed as cigarette alternatives. Andrii Atanov/iStock via Getty Images Oral nicotine pouches – like Zyn and Velo in the U.S. – appear to ...

Philip Morris International (PM) affiliate, Swedish Match, earned first-ever FDA authorization for a modified risk marketing claim and now is the first to achieve an FDA renewal PMI affiliates have ...

Aims: Swedish smokeless tobacco (snus) is a lower-risk tobacco product than cigarette smoking for individuals. However, the public health impact of snus use is less well studied. Critically, it is ...

OSLO (Reuters) - The share of Norwegians who smoke on a daily basis has halved in the last decade and was last year exceeded for the first time by the use of snus, a wet snuff tobacco product, ...

Nicotine pouches, or snus as it is known to our Nordic neighbours, remain without a clear regulatory footing in Cyprus. Classified by the drugs council in October 2024 as pharmaceutical products, they ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking for public input on Swedish Match's request to certify its General-branded tobacco products as less harmful than cigarettes. It ...

Snus users who stopped using snus experienced higher blood pressure and gained weight. This has been shown by a research group at Linköping University, Sweden, in a study on 33 people, published in ...

A habit that is worrying health authorities in Sweden where increasing numbers of teenagers are taking what’s known as “snus” is also concerning football authorities in England where one-fifth of ...

STOCKHOLM, Nov 7 (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 ...

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The FDA “authorized a renewal of a risk modification order submitted by Swedish Match USA, Inc., an affiliate of Philip Morris (PM) International, for eight General snus products. As part of the ...