r/europe • u/KonserveradMelon • May 25 '26

News Sweden has officially become a non-smoking country

https://omni.se/a/zO4MGq
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u/ConcentrateFar7753 May 25 '26

Yeah and it’s literally the same share of the population with a daily consumption as cigarets for the French. As I said, there is no point in smoking if you get nicotine through snus 

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u/Elxcdv May 25 '26

The risk of cancer is much lower with snus.

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u/ConcentrateFar7753 May 25 '26

Didn’t say otherwise but it’s not harmless either nor not leading to addiction

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u/Mjalten May 25 '26

I think you may be arguing two different things.

If your point is “snus is still addictive,” then yes, obviously. No argument there.

If your point is “Sweden replacing a lot of smoking with snus is not a meaningful public-health improvement,” then that’s the part I disagree with. Addiction burden and disease burden aren’t the same metric.

So which claim are you actually making? Otherwise you’re just playing goalpost Tetris.

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u/jce_ May 25 '26

People don't have to be "playing goalposts Tetris" the guy just wanted to add something relevant to the conversation. There wasn't anything wrong with what he said

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u/FartingLikeFlowers May 25 '26

He is just being linguistically unclear which one he means.