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  • Mazur
    Member
    • May 2007
    • 159

    Snus in Israel

    SNUSAB brand in Israel: www.kicks.co.il

    Israel's health ministry is trying to find legal means to halt the import and sale of a fruit flavoured smokeless tobacco product from Sweden that is sucked between the gum and the upper lip for its "nicotine effect."

    The product was recently allowed into Israel, apparently by the ministry of industry and trade, even though smokeless tobacco products have not been imported for 20 years—since the state comptroller wrote in his annual report that it was illegal to bring them into the country.

    Called Kicks in Israel and "snus" in Sweden, the tin, sold for the equivalent of $8 (£4; {euro}6), contains 20 tiny teabag-like packets that are sucked for up to 30 minutes each. The importer predicted that Kicks was "going to be the hit of the summer among smokers and certainly among parents of children.


    source: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/335/7616/366-b 28.08.2007
  • Z480
    Member
    • Mar 2008
    • 20

    #2
    Why would they call it "kicks"? For somebody who's trying to market snus in a country where it's likely to be banned, giving it a name that sounds like it's aimed at kids is just retarded.

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    • snoosiphant
      Member
      • Feb 2008
      • 175

      #3
      Its on sale at northerner.com if anybody wants to try it. I always wanted a wild berry snus.

      Your right though, with a name like kicks they were asking for it. They should have called it heroin. Oh wait, thats taken.

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      • Bastage
        Member
        • Oct 2007
        • 102

        #4
        Snus AB makes some terrible stuff. Kicks is what Roots used to be called. They had another name before that, I can't recall the original name. They must be constantly having problems because the name changes all the time.

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        • darkwing
          Member
          • Oct 2007
          • 415

          #5
          The thing I find unbelievable is that the authorities want to ban snus in Israel. I guess they prefer to have their population smoking instead?

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          • lxskllr
            Member
            • Sep 2007
            • 13435

            #6
            Originally posted by snoosiphant
            Its on sale at northerner.com if anybody wants to try it. I always wanted a wild berry snus.

            Your right though, with a name like kicks they were asking for it. They should have called it heroin. Oh wait, thats taken.
            My recommendation is to stay far away. I still have some in fridge that's approaching 1 year old. It's just that good :^P

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            • STORM6490MT
              Member
              • Mar 2008
              • 138

              #7
              the swedes probably told the rabbi to **** off when they wanted to bless the tobacco and make it kosher.

              what the hell? they make nuclear bombs, fighter jets, automatic weapons and kill women and children... why no tobacco?

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              • Xobeloot
                Member
                • Jan 2008
                • 2542

                #8
                wow :shock:

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                • STORM6490MT
                  Member
                  • Mar 2008
                  • 138

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Xobeloot
                  wow :shock:
                  yeah, i should probably keep my politics to myself. I may loose a few friends here by disclosing my opinions about governments and their atrocities.

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                  • darkwing
                    Member
                    • Oct 2007
                    • 415

                    #10
                    Um, yeah ...

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                    • Zero
                      Member
                      • May 2006
                      • 1522

                      #11
                      Originally posted by STORM6490MT
                      Originally posted by Xobeloot
                      wow :shock:
                      yeah, i should probably keep my politics to myself. I may loose a few friends here by disclosing my opinions about governments and their atrocities.
                      Well, I'm all for intelligent political debate, but that certainly wasn't it. I've been asked to get rid of these posts, but I'm really not the censorship type. Let's just try to keep politics in the People & World Around Us forum and let's try to keep those politics educated. Emotional politics is fine too, but blanket racism is a different thing altogether.

                      I don't hate Americans because their government gave Israel the money and guns and nukes and weapons they use to commit those atrocities, so I don't think it's fair to tear up Jews for what their crooked leaders did either. I'm not a fan of Israel's foreign policy one iota, but I certainly don't hate the Israeli people for that. I've read more about history and politics than most people I know and if there's one conclusion I can draw that is universal among all the world's people, it's than none of us can look to any of our governments without finding blood and corruption hiding away somewhere.

                      The great struggle of the 21st Century is going to be one of good people refusing to do evil because their leaders tell them to, and one of good people realising that it is they whom the evil would have kill each other. The enemy isn't Jews or Americans or Muslims or Blacks or North Koreans or any other such immaterial division of human beings - the enemy is a very small, very powerful, very tightly knit group of people whose only power lies in the blind allegiance they can command of their otherwise good-hearted followers - and they are not of any race or country or creed. They are a network of crooks who pervade all of our countries and many others again.

                      So, let's try to keep things respectful, deal?

                      I pity the fool who breaks this rule. 8)


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                      • snoosiphant
                        Member
                        • Feb 2008
                        • 175

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Zero

                        The great struggle of the 21st Century is going to be one of good people refusing to do evil because their leaders tell them to, and one of good people realising that it is they whom the evil would have kill each other. The enemy isn't Jews or Americans or Muslims or Blacks or North Koreans or any other such immaterial division of human beings - the enemy is a very small, very powerful, very tightly knit group of people whose only power lies in the blind allegiance they can command of their otherwise good-hearted followers - and they are not of any race or country or creed. They are a network of crooks who pervade all of our countries and many others again.
                        Very well said. Thank you.

                        EDIT: By the way, if you are within reach of american "justice" you might not want to articulate those sentiments too often or too loudly, they have already built the camps http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps1.htm

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                        • Zero
                          Member
                          • May 2006
                          • 1522

                          #13
                          :lol: Yes, I know all about the camps, but let's not hijack this thread any longer. Martial law can have its own thread. :wink:

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                          • STORM6490MT
                            Member
                            • Mar 2008
                            • 138

                            #14
                            I did say Israel and not Jews. There is a great difference between the people and the government. Who pulled out the race card?

                            Anyway, The Kosher excise tax is very real and if you don't accept it, you wont be able to advertise your product. At least that is how it works here in America. If they wanted to tax this in Israel and the Swedes refused, as I assume they would do, they would lobby to have it banned.

                            It was probably a tax thing that went bad and now they want to ban it. They know it is better for you than smoking but may classify snus with other more dangerous oral tobacco.

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                            • anweis
                              Member
                              • Aug 2006
                              • 70

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Zero
                              :lol: Yes, I know all about the camps
                              But did you know that The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave has the largest prison population in the world and that more than 1% of its citizens are imprisoned already? The poor people don't have access to snus in there.

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