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Wise has changed its name to Oomph - its the same snus just a different name.
Wise portion snus contains nicotine but is purified from undesirable constituents in the finnished product. Among these are nitrosamines that can cause cancer. This is why Wise snus can be called a purified.
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Skruf snus is a top quality snus product that carries the highest quality regarding content, manufacturing and packing. It's aimed for the conscious people with high expectations on quality and design.
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Grovsnus is nr 3 in size among the snus brands in Sweden. This coarse snus has it's origin from 19th century Norrland (northern parts of Sweden), were it was first made.
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Gustavus is the latin form of Gustav. This form of the name is usually regarded as a first name and was given to a number of Swedish kings. A snus with an aroma that is a mixture of flowers, sweetness and fresh citrus.
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Knox is a top quality snus product with a low price, it carries the highest quality regarding content, manufacturing and packing. It's aimed for the conscious people with high expectations on quality and design.
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Swedish Match wanted to offer the snus users a quality snus with a lower price, that's how Kronan was born. Kronan is the largest amoung the lowprice brands on the swedish market.
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L.D original was launched in 2005 as economic snus with good quality and Level was launched in 2006 as a top quality smart price snus. Both L.D and Level snus is made by the same manufature.
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Nick and Johnny Original was first released in Norway 2006, were it became popular very fast. About a year later it was launched in Sweden. Nick and Johnny contains about 40% more nicotine then traditional snus products.
Read more about Nick and Johnny Snus - Powerful
Röda Lacket was launched in 1850 by Petter Swartz Snusfactory. The most popular days for Röda Lacket was probably during the youth rebellion in 1968. Maybe the red color had something to do with that.
Read more about Röda Lacket Snus - The Rebel
V2 Tobacco believes that snus is a highly enjoyable and sophisticated product, full of the varied taste and aroma from the natural freshness of fragrant herbs and spices.
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Some Definitions
Snus is different than:
Moist snuff
Like snus, moist snuff is made from grinding tobacco with water and flavourings. Unlike snus, it is fermented. The fermentation process leads to higher levels of cancer-causing nitrosamines.
Nasal Snuff
Once popular but now rather archaic, nasal snuff is made from fermented and powdered tobacco, and then inhaled up the nostril.
Chewing Tobacco
Chewing tobacco is dryer, sweeter and made from differently cured tobacco than snus. Chewing tobacco is tucked between the gum and jaw and is chewed or held in place. Saliva is spit or swallowed.
Snus Composition
Swedish Snus by is made from selected leaf tobaccos, salts, humectants and flavour additives. Snus is regulated as a food substance in Sweden.
Tobacco
Swedish snus is made from mainly air cured tobaccos. Traditionally fire-cured tobacco used to be the major ingredient, but this has changed in the last decade.
Additives
When making Swedish by the main ingredients except for tobacco are water, salt (table salt) and sodium carbonate. Flavour additives and humectants are also used. Salt is added mainly for its effect on taste but also has a preservative action which contributes to improved shelf life of the products. Sodium carbonate is used to give the products their characteristic flavour profile but also brings the pH value to the slightly alkaline side. Sodium carbonate will convert to baking soda immediately after it is added. Flavour additives in general are natural or artificial flavour compounds that comply with food regulations. Flavours are usally dissolved in alcohol when added. Most of the alcohol evaporates during production. Only trace quantities remain. Humectants are added to protect the products from drying out. We use two types: glycerol and propylene glycol. Both of them also have a preservative effect since they lower the water activity of the product, thus preventing micro-organisms from growing.
Packaging Material
Paraffin coated cardboard cans are used for most loose Snus brands. The lids are made of polypropylene. For the pouch products cans made of polypropylene are used. Pouch products are more sensitive to drying than loose Snus so plastic cans help to increase shelf life of these products. The paper material used to pack individual pouches is of similar type to that used in tea bags. The material is made of cellulose fibres plus an adhesive which is approved as packaging material in contact with food.
Snus Manufacturing
Swedish Snus is manufactured in three major steps, grinding, processing and packing.
Grinding
The tobacco is broken up, dried and fed into a grinder. The ground tobacco is sieved into three particle size fractions, coarse, medium and fine. Pre-set quantities of the three fractions are fed into a mixer silo where the tobacco flour is mixed. After blending, the Snus flour is fed into a storage silo, from which flour is automatically taken to the processing operation. Each type of Snus flour is kept in a separate silo.
Processing
Manufacturing of Snus is a batch operation. The whole process is computer controlled and can be run day and night, all week around. To start the process, tobacco flour is automatically weighed and fed into the process blender. Water and salt is added to the batch under stirring. The batch is then heated and kept heated up for a specified time, which varies with brands. Temperature and stirring is controlled by a process computer program. This part of the process is traditionally named "sweating" but is more close to a pasteurisation process. After pasteurisation the Snus batch is cooled down and the rest of the ingredients are added. Samples are taken for quality control. If approved, the batch is cleared for packing.
Packing of Loose Snus
Cans are filled in automatic filling machines. Filled cans are sealed with a lid. After lidding all cans are weighed on a check-weigher, which also regulates the filling volume of the cans. Now the cans are labelled in a labelling machine, shrink-sealed in a distribution pack of 10 cans and packed in cases.
Packing of Portion-Packed Snus
Packing of portion-packed Snus requires a more complicated packaging equipment. Portions are measured and fed into a tube of cellulose fibre. Individual portions are sealed and cut apart. The finished portions are filled in a plastic can and the lid attached. After lidding all cans which pass a check-weigher station are labelled.
Cold Storage
All finished Snus is kept in a cold storage a few days before it is shipped out to the trade. Keeping Snus cold a certain time after manufacturing is important for the Snus to ripen and obtain its characteristic flavour.
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Try Swedish snus (or snuff) and stop smoking this very day snus is the smoke-free tobacco alternative. If you feel you want to stop smoking because you are worried about your heath or think it is too expensive, there is an alternative you cannot fail with do like 500,000 Swedes who have succeeded in giving up switch to Swedish snus, a smokeless tobacco product!
The hardest thing about giving up smoking is that the nicotine cravings remain. You may have tried a host of different products such as coffee, nicotine patches, different food and exercise habits but noticed that none of these help. In Sweden over half a million people (out of a population of 9 million!) have succeeded in stopping smoking by switching to snus - the smoke-free tobacco alternative. Try it as well: since 1998 we have been sending supplies of snuff out across the world and have the biggest range on the market with the best prices. Your delivery of snus will be on its way within 24 hours!
From smoker to smoke free!
Giving up smoking takes a long time. The smoker usually goes through a series of different stages, each and every one of which is highly important if stopping is to be successful. This is why it is a good idea to know about the process before you begin. You learn to be a smoker quite slowly and this happens most often at an age of 12-16. It is very important whether friends and parents smoke and what social status and group membership you acquire by starting smoking or not. Tobacco rapidly gives rise to a physical dependency that in most people increases as their tobacco consumption rises and they acquire a fixed pattern of tobacco use.
A deeply rooted habit
Tobacco also increasingly comes to govern psychological conditions and can, for example, control feelings and stress. The very act of smoking develops with time into a habit that is made up of biological, social and psychological factors. In order to stop smoking you must, besides overcoming the physical dependency, also analyse what feelings and what social context and deeply rooted habits your smoking is linked to.
Wisdom comes with age
The smoker usually goes through seven phases, each and every one of which is very important if giving up is to succeed. Each phase involves new challenges for the smoker who therefore needs different kinds of help and advice. Well intentioned advice to change your smoking habits often has a limited effect if the smoker has not yet been wondering about stopping. Both the advisor and the smoker who is wondering about stopping can benefit from knowing about the process of giving up tobacco. The seven phases are written from a smoker’s perspective, but can for the most part also be applied from that of an advisor.
The seven different phases of stopping smoking.
Stop smoking, nah!
In the “pre-contemplation stage” the smoker does not wonder about stopping smoking. For the smoker in the pre-contemplation stage, being a smoker is not a problem and there is on the whole no desire to stop. The negative consequences of smoking for health are explained away or denied: 'Why stop when pollution is far worse?' or 'I have never been ill from smoking'.
The disadvantages that smoking entails are toned down and explained away. Instead people may emphasise the advantages popularly associated with smoking: 'A smoker is never stressed', 'I like the taste' or 'Smokers are nicer to be with'. Others use justification like, I've tried, but I was forced to admit that I didn't have enough willpower to stop. A common reason for not contemplating giving up smoking is that you expect to put on weight.
Will, won't
The contemplation stage is characterised by a shifting degree of recognition and weighing up of the pros and cons of smoking compared with stopping smoking. Being a smoker in the contemplation stage dos not automatically lead to attempting to stop smoking. In some people the conflicting feelings about smoking becomes a kind of captivity by musings for and against - and hence nothing is done about the matter. However, the uncertainty often leads to the first attempt at change. In the contemplation stage the smoker is commonly inclined to make an attempt within six months. However, experience shows that only half of people in this phase stop smoking for more than 24 hours in the next 12 months. What can in the long term motivate the smoker in the contemplation stage to stop smoking is to become heedful of his/her smoking to become heedful of information about smoking, dependency and the effects of smoking, together with different methods and aids for stopping smoking.
Now it's time
At the preparation and action stage we find the smoker who now wants to face up to the problem and work to make himself ready to do so. There is a definite intention to change behaviour in the immediate future, usually within a month. A smoker who finds himself at this stage listens to good advice and experiments with different ideas for giving up smoking. Preparations may include setting a date when you are going to be smoke-free and deciding what kinds of help are needed. The action stage is the period when the smoker actually stops smoking. This stage lasts until he or she can say that it has broadly speaking become an everyday matter to be smoke-free, something that takes six months on average.
The vast majority of people are receptive to direct help and support in the action stage. This help should preferably be as tangible as possible, as for example strategies for handling abstinence, how to use nicotine substitutes correctly, fitness and diet tips, etc. Going through personal advantages and disadvantages himself, possibly with professional help, is ofen what takes the smoker into the preparation phase.
Oh, what a temptation
In the maintenance stage the newly-won freedom from smoke begins to take root. The former smoker gets experience of handling the urge to smoke and longer and longer periods elapse between these risky and embarrassing occasions. It seems as if the worst is over and that you can relax a little.
However, it has been shown in practice that you also need to be on your guard in the future, as things often go awry in this phase - for example, if you forget all the hard work of giving up and just remember how wonderful it is to smoke. In this situation the thought of becoming an occasional smoker or just tasting a single cigarette often arises.
I went wrong but will succeed next time
A genuine cessation of smoking is often preceded by three to eight attempts. This means that relapse is a natural part of giving up smoking. After the first attempt, the smoker cannot deny his awakening recognition of wanting to be smoke-free. Therefore, after a relapse the smoker reverts to the uncertainty of the contemplation stage. He/she wants to become smoke-free in the long term, but has simply chosen to smoke again.
The most important thing in a relapse is for the smoker not to allow himself to be overwhelmed by powerlessness and to see himself as a slave to tobacco; on the contrary, he should concentrate on the things that actually worked during the attempt, things you can usefully do more of next time you give up.
A light at the end of the tunnel
The concluding phase is the ideal goal for all attempts to alter a behaviour. Here almost all uncertainty has been overcome and the psychological and social habit of smoking uprooted so completely that you can tackle any situation without it becoming necessary to smoke.
Success!
Now the worst is over but remember: once a smoker, always a smoker so the former smoker remains an occasional smoker. This goes wrong in 90 percent of cases and then you are back at the contemplation stage again.
Use of Swedish snus is increasing and more people are stopping smoking.
Today more boxes then ever are being sold in Sweden and snus is accepted by every stratum of society. Furthermore, international interest is growing the whole time and people who are stopping smoking to switch to snus are legions.
Sweden has over a million snus users aged 18-75 (out of a population of 9 million), of whom around 200,000 are women. The average age of daily snuff takers is 40 for men and 39 for women; average consumption is just over three and a half boxes a week.
In the context of tobacco, it is important to remember that it is smoked tobacco that is broadly speaking responsible for all smoking related deaths. The smoke contains around 4,000 chemical compounds, of which some 40-50 are directly carcinogenic. The smoker desires only one single substance, the nicotine – not even the smoke, which contains carbon monoxide or tar. Given this understanding, there are many smokers who have chosen to stop smoking and start using snus instead.
Of people who use snus daily, approximately half are former smokers, a figure that is considerably higher among female snus takers. The flow in the other direction – from snus to daily use of cigarettes is appreciably lower. Only 7 percent of daily smokers were previously snus users.
Several studies have confirmed that snus is a good alternative to tobacco for cigarette smokers. In 2001 the Swedish Cancer Society and the pharmaceutical company Pharmacia carried out a TEMO survey of people who succeeded in stopping smoking and found that 33 percent used snus to wean themselves from smoke, compared with 17 percent who used nicotine preparations of the nicotine chewing gum and patch type.
The Swedish Experience.
Use of tobacco in Sweden is at a comparable level with that in many other European countries. Despite this, the risk of dying of a tobacco related disease is lower in Sweden than in any other European country. In research circles this paradox has been dubbed “The Swedish Experience” and can in all probability be explained by the unique smoking habits of Swedish men. Swedish men smoke to an appreciably lesser extent than is common in the rest of Europe. In Sweden, on the other hand, snuff taking is as common as smoking.
However, the risk of Swedish women dying of tobacco related diseases is at a level with the risk to women elsewhere in Europe. The tobacco consumption pattern of Swedish women actually follows the European pattern. Like women in the rest of Europe, Swedish women have never used snuff to any great extent. This further suggests that one of the main factors contributing to the favourable statistics on Swedish men is their preference for snuff. The high proportion of snuff use and the low proportion of smokers in Sweden explain why so many people in Sweden succeed in stopping smoking in Sweden.
Fact box:
In 1998, 17.1 % of adult Swedish males smoked. The equivalent figure for Denmark was 32 % and for Norway 33.7 %.
In 1997, 19 % of all adult Swedish males used Swedish snuff. In Denmark and Norway snuff is used to a very limited extent.
In 1998 the per capita consumption of tobacco products was approximately equal in the Scandinavian countries: Sweden - 1400 grams, Denmark - 1612 grams and Norway - 1304 grams.
In Sweden more smokers are switching to snuff taking than vice versa.
Sweden was the first and only country in the world to achieve the WHO’s target for year 2000 of the proportion of adult smokers being below 20 %.
In 1990, 11 % of fatalities among Swedish men in Sweden were smoking-related, which was the lowest in Europe. The European average was 25 %.
In 1990 the risk of a 35-year old man dying of a smoking-related disease before the age of 70 was 4 % in Sweden compared with 10 % in Denmark and 6 % in Norway. Among Swedish women, on the other hand, the incidence of smoking-related mortality is on an average level for Europe.
The evident difference in tobacco-related health effects between Swedish men and men in the rest of Europe suggests that the risks from snuff taking differ from the known health risks from smoking. More recent research into snuff-taking Swedes has confirmed this. Although snuff taking cannot be entirely exonerated from detrimental effects on health, the research results give a picture of the risks from snuff that is completely different from those linked to smoking.
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