As a nicotine addict for well over thirty years I've given up trying to quite nicotine. Snus is the only way I get my fix now for over a year, the results being I breath better, I'm more active and feel healthier and strangely I've lost a lot of weight. Smoking cost me about $10.60 a day whereas snus costs about $1.20 per day.
Nicotine's a drug, caffeine's a drug, sugar's a drug, so what? If using snus replaces cigarettes, even if it doesn't replace all cigarettes it's a positive health outcome.
Nicotine is still a drug tho, it stills addictive and there is a risk for dual users where they smoke AND use snus as well... saying that, snus seems a bit safer than smoking...
MercenarySlick, you really should read the epidemiology studies on Swedish snus before spouting anti-tobacco rhetoric. There is NO statistical significance between using snus and throat and mouth cancer. You've read too much government propaganda.
Only European snus, namely Swedish snus is a more safe alternative at delivering nicotine because it is steam-pasteurized rather than fire-cured like usa smokeless tobacco
@snusify It's not only about the nicotine. Vaping is the perfect substitution for smoking, because it reproduces many other aspects of the habit and almost none of the damages. Plus, you can increase the amount of nicotine up to the unbearable, which is WAY too much. 18 mg/ml is my sweet spot.
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Um... snus is not safer than chewing tobacco. It may not be as harmful in some ways as smoking tobacco, but it can still cause gum cancer and throat cancer.
It's not the nicotine that causes cancer though, but the actual plant matter and chemicals of tobacco.
@MercenarySlick nicotine and nornicotine react with nitrite produced from microbial fermentation during curing to form class 2B (possibly carcinogenic) nitrosamines, which I think r the "chemicals" you r referring to. These nitrosamines r virtually absent in uncured tobacco. In other words the problem is largely avoidable. Interestingly, uncured green tobacco has also recently been found to contain anticancer cembranoids, which may seriously alter the way we perceive tobacco.
I'm tempted to use the rest of the interview footage to make a second part... watch this space...
wearetarget 1 week ago
As a nicotine addict for well over thirty years I've given up trying to quite nicotine. Snus is the only way I get my fix now for over a year, the results being I breath better, I'm more active and feel healthier and strangely I've lost a lot of weight. Smoking cost me about $10.60 a day whereas snus costs about $1.20 per day.
strawalker 1 month ago
Nicotine's a drug, caffeine's a drug, sugar's a drug, so what? If using snus replaces cigarettes, even if it doesn't replace all cigarettes it's a positive health outcome.
rothenbj 6 months ago
@rothenbj these things create dependency though, don't they?
bolliyang 6 months ago
Nicotine is still a drug tho, it stills addictive and there is a risk for dual users where they smoke AND use snus as well... saying that, snus seems a bit safer than smoking...
bolliyang 6 months ago
All you ANTZ people need to give it up on your "made up facts" that nicotine alone causes cancer. There are no facts to substantiate that conclusion.
Sheesh!
C.B.
cigarbabe2 6 months ago
MercenarySlick, you really should read the epidemiology studies on Swedish snus before spouting anti-tobacco rhetoric. There is NO statistical significance between using snus and throat and mouth cancer. You've read too much government propaganda.
rothenbj 6 months ago
@rothenbj yup, its a scandal to say that it does, its pure propaganda
geppegep 4 weeks ago
Also here cuz of grimm
ronsantocubsfan 9 months ago
Only European snus, namely Swedish snus is a more safe alternative at delivering nicotine because it is steam-pasteurized rather than fire-cured like usa smokeless tobacco
67168 10 months ago
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Thanks Grimm! Yeah snus is better than smoking but VAPING is the real solution! Spread the word
reezlaw 10 months ago
@reezlaw Vaping does not give you a big enough nicotine hit in my opinion. Snus is awesome.
snusify 9 months ago
@snusify It's not only about the nicotine. Vaping is the perfect substitution for smoking, because it reproduces many other aspects of the habit and almost none of the damages. Plus, you can increase the amount of nicotine up to the unbearable, which is WAY too much. 18 mg/ml is my sweet spot.
reezlaw 9 months ago
harm reduction?...so instead of shooting someone, they decide to hit them with a baseball bat...harm reduction simple!
MotoVapenStine 10 months ago
@MotoVapenStine more like a foam whiffle bat actually.
MisterNickOtine 4 weeks ago
GrimmGreen brought us all here! LOL
QCAssociates 10 months ago 2
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Um... snus is not safer than chewing tobacco. It may not be as harmful in some ways as smoking tobacco, but it can still cause gum cancer and throat cancer.
It's not the nicotine that causes cancer though, but the actual plant matter and chemicals of tobacco.
MercenarySlick 10 months ago
@MercenarySlick nicotine and nornicotine react with nitrite produced from microbial fermentation during curing to form class 2B (possibly carcinogenic) nitrosamines, which I think r the "chemicals" you r referring to. These nitrosamines r virtually absent in uncured tobacco. In other words the problem is largely avoidable. Interestingly, uncured green tobacco has also recently been found to contain anticancer cembranoids, which may seriously alter the way we perceive tobacco.
MisterNickOtine 4 weeks ago
Grimm brought me here too; love it.
NicFitNation 10 months ago
first grimm green brought me here!
mk3bora 10 months ago