Swedish snus could be banned

[Frosted]

If it was banned I'd have to quit. There are no other decent substitutes Fazer.

Oliver Twists were ok but I don't know about long term. These might be banned under the same thing anyhow.

[Fazer]

I've prepared. If it's banned I've got 2 weeks off in May booked especially to give up. If it isn't banned - it's still a bonus.

You're going to quit ? and do what, snuff and OT ?

[Frosted]

I've sat myself down and thought hard about this (not too hard, it hurts) and asked myself the question "do I really want to use snus for the rest of my life"? and the answer was a categorical 'Yes'.
I get a lot of pleasure out of it. I'm also not confident about being nicotine free for the rest of my life. The thought of picking up a packet of cigarettes again is terrifying.

[Snusdog]

When will the new tobacco directive be decided on...............is there a time frame

[Frosted]

Ha Ha - you're on.

[GN Tobacco Sweden AB]

If it will be banned you can call me Daisy:

[Frosted]

Well then it will be a bonus

[GN Tobacco Sweden AB]

It will not be bannad , brothers calm down please .

[Frosted]

I've prepared. If it's banned I've got 2 weeks off in May booked especially to give up. If it isn't banned - it's still a bonus.

[Snusdog]

April 25, 2012 is tomorrow. It is when SnusWorldWide trial takes place in Sweden... Northerner said in their facebook page they would await the outcome and decide whether to continue Sweden to EU sales or close the shop.
I placed an order with snus2.se in the morning. It ships today. Better safe than sorry.

Does anyone else look in the calendar?

This is a big deal with implications beyond the EU. Were the EU to lift the ban, it would give weight to American Harm Reduction campaigns

If they clamp down........it will make things tighter all around

My guess is the status quo

Thanks for the heads up guys……….and please keep us posted!!!

[kevs]

Then it'll be SnusOn group meeting in Sweden somewhere around July!

[Fazer]

April 25, 2012 is tomorrow. It is when SnusWorldWide trial takes place in Sweden... Northerner said in their facebook page they would await the outcome and decide whether to continue Sweden to EU sales or close the shop.
I placed an order with snus2.se in the morning. It ships today. Better safe than sorry.

Does anyone else look in the calendar?

I did give a heads up in the other EU ban thread about the date, i've not placed an order because i've not got any cash to spare. I've got enough to last me a good few months, but if it does go tits-up, i guess i'm screwed like the rest of the EU

[Jan]

April 25, 2012 is tomorrow. It is when SnusWorldWide trial takes place in Sweden... Northerner said in their facebook page they would await the outcome and decide whether to continue Sweden to EU sales or close the shop.
I placed an order with snus2.se in the morning. It ships today. Better safe than sorry.

Does anyone else look in the calendar?

[precious007]

It is good for same sex marriage ,it is good for same sex marriage parents adopt baybis , it is good for extremistik organisations and they're rights, it good for loosing national identity , it is good for pharmaceutical company's and WHO( world health organisation , and it is bed for svine flu couse Sweden bout 9 million vacsins but that god dammed Svine Flu was not so pandemic as Pharmatheutical companies was thinking, and it is good for unsatesfyed man and women MP in EU Capital Bruxelles who come to EU council each morning and thinking how to take revenge of common Europian becouse his wife or here husband were not so hot in the bed at night , I thing that is all what it is good for

100% Agree and the list continues .... The worst there is to the EU that it's good only for 2% of the population (that means the leaders, the ones that make the laws in their favor)

I'm pretty much convinced that in 1989 when the Revolution came and the communist party was destroyed in Romania, people were doing better on all given levels.

The revolution should start now because it's even worse for the majority, and why suffer for the few?

The problem is even worse for our brothers in Republic of Moldavia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and all the balkan countries, we're standing above most of them.

In Romania there are people unemployed that had to cut out the electricity and water and heating to their one room apartments, have no money for food and so on and so on ... and seemingly EU does nothing to protect these poor guys that were less fortunate to live a normal life.

There is a way out, but people that live in poverty don't have any type of education so imagine that most of them either live in poverty or just start stealing and going into the black markets.

That's what EU wanted, in fact I am not amazed because it's one of Hitler's dreams.

Where there's many - there's power - that's why all the bastards teamed up to become "MORE BASTARDS".....

I live in country that's a member of EU and they don't even care or know how to put a proper diagnose on a seemingly serious illness, I live in a country where I have to find my own way in life on my own (actually being pushed into doing everything myself) because no one is there to offer protection of any kind. Where the average salary can not even pay the groceries..... most people are pushed into finding another way.....

EU sucks on all levels, but let's start sending letter to the EU council - at least bring some awareness.

I'll send one in today ;-)

who's next?

All the big companies such as northerner and all the others should do the same one thing, at least bring some awareness, even if we don't do anything about it then at least we have tried .....

[Tom200]

Beautiful! Totally agree. But it seems like this is false alarm:

Google translated site (may be totally crazy):

"Recently, screamed a headline that the EU was thinking prohibit snus in Sweden, "in disguise" (Aftonbladet 19/4). Other media hanging on, politicians of various shades promised to fight for snuff, a responsibility center communications director prophesied a blow for the "whole portfolio", and angry and desperate snuff filled the gaps and comment fields.

First, the evening took an alert journalist contact with those responsible in Brussels to get the facts. The answer? No, there is no decision, not even a suggestion, that "sly way" prohibit snus in Sweden. They discuss the regulation of additives in tobacco products (mainly cigarettes) of a similar nature that are already in the U.S., where "Swedish" snus, although this is still being sold freely."The data must have its source in Sweden," said EU spokesman politely. In plain language: it was a homemade canard that splashed in the Swedish dam."


In Swedish:

http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt...te_7078827.svd

Yeah, but I'm still not convinced. Still great if it was false alarm. Swedish Match took it seriously though.

Also the rest of the article is very negative against the Swedish snus lobby. It says that the lobby is contra-productive and that we should respect the european snus ban.