Swedish snus could be banned

[GN Tobacco Sweden AB]

There is one good thing in here that in Aftonbladet först brand noriced is Odens Lakrits it's makes me proud Guys

[truthwolf1]

It looks like it will be straight/natural/old recipe tobacco and mint/wintergreen only. My guess would be menthol would also be allowed for snuff.

Man this will suck if it goes this way.

[precious007]

it's cleat that the tobacco lobby has been paid again to ban certain brands of snus again (lol)

Eu just f'ing sucks, if you ban the flavored snus then ban the f'ing flavored cigars too (then it would make some logic) and there are hundreds of brands that come with flavor cigars as well.

[Fazer]

It's not complete list, lot of brands are missing in there

Yeah, i was looking at that the other day. I'd say about 95% of all snus has some kinda flavour additives in it ... I think they're after flavour additives in tobacco products as a whole, so if it does go through, it will end most snuff as well

[kevs]

It's not complete list, lot of brands are missing in there

[resnor]

Don't see any jacobsson's on there...I'd be ok. Plus most of the Skrufs are ok.

[Jan]

Here is the list of brands that will have to be discontinued if the damn EU directive goes through:
(source: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article14739004.ab)

Snussorter i farozonen:
Lakrits
Oden's Lakrits Portionssnus
Mocca Lakrits Minisnus
XQ's Licorice Portion Nikotinfritt Snus
Offroad Lakrits White Portionssnus
Catch White Licorice Portionssnus
Catch Dry Lakrits Minisnus
Catch Lakrits Minisnus
LD Salmiak Portionssnus

Kanel
Oden's Extra Stark Kanel Portionssnus
Oden's Kanel Lössnus
Nordströmmen Julesnus Lössnus

Eukalyptus
Catch White Eucalyptus Portionssnus
Catch Dry Eucalyptus Minisnus
Offroad Eucalyptus White Minisnus
Offroad Eucalyptus White Portionssnus

Citrus
Oomph Licorice Lemon 6mg Minisnus
Lemon Choice Nikotinfritt Snus
Art Citrus Menthol 3mg Minisnus
Göteborgs Rapé Lime White Portionssnus
Thunder Cool Orange Extra Strong snus

Vanilj
Blue Ocean Portionssnus

Kaffe
Offroad Coffee Supreme
Thunder Chrome Coffee Supreme Longer Portionssnus

Mentol
Art Citrus Menthol
Northerner Citrus & Menthol
Oomph Wise Citrus Menthol Snus

Tranbär
Skruf Tranbär White Portionssnus

Enbär/Lingon
Göteborgs Rapé

[heders]

I can't imagine this going through. I'll keep you updated here from Sweden as well if I hear anything.

[Fazer]

Court cases like this can drag on for years here where I live, often with no outcome at all. Let's hope they have good lawyers and the while thing does not end with a conviction.

Our agent in Sweden, Mr. GN, could keep us up to date perhaps, with all the access to Swedish media and insider information that he has.

God bless SnusWorldWide staff!

Yes, some cases can drag on for years, like complex legal cases. However, i don't think this is a complex legal case, full of complex legal arguments. You only have to look at how quick the hammer fell when the cancer organization in Finland filed the law suit against SWW, in an instant the bank accounts were frozen and the assets simultaneously seized. After that i you remember, all the online snus stores in the EU cut supply off for a while, and they have good lawyers. My guess would be, we will find out over the summer. Let's hope it goes our way and our supply isn't cut off for good ... If it does go tits-up we will have a lot more smokers around, good job anti cancer organization, well done, have a cookie from the cookie jar, totally counterproductive move ...

+1 ........

Let's hope they have good lawyers and the while thing does not end with a conviction.

God bless SnusWorldWide staff!

[bill77.017]

God bless SnusWorldWide staff!

Yeah Jan, our thoughts and good wishes are with them.

[Jan]

Court cases like this can drag on for years here where I live, often with no outcome at all. Let's hope they have good lawyers and the while thing does not end with a conviction.

Our agent in Sweden, Mr. GN, could keep us up to date perhaps, with all the access to Swedish media and insider information that he has.

God bless SnusWorldWide staff!

Yeah, I guess you're right there Fazer.

Wasn't the 25th just the start of the trial ? i'd think it will be a little while yet, maybe ...

[Fazer]

I wonder about this too.

I guess no news is good news.

Wasn't the 25th just the start of the trial ? i'd think it will be a little while yet, maybe ...

I wonder about this too.

I guess no news is good news.

Anyone know the outcome of today's trial yet?