Is snus "Green" compared to cigs?

[sgreger1]

I am making a t-shirt design for clubsnus's t-shirt contest and was thinking of latching onto the new "green" movement for the design.

But my question is, can the claim be made that snus is in some way "greener" than smoking cigs? Or perhaps that it is a more "natural" alternative to smoking?


If anyone knows any info about the footprint of a snus portion compared to cigarette, that would be sweet.

[lxskllr]

Lös snus is absolutely more green than cigarettes. Portions are less so due to the trash, but they create less immediately harmful pollution since they don't smoke.

[sgreger1]

Yah the lack of smoke is the biggest thing I would imagine. But I was just wondering if growing and cultivating snus has less of a footprint than growing and manufacturing packs of cigarettes.

[lxskllr]

Yah the lack of smoke is the biggest thing I would imagine. But I was just wondering if growing and cultivating snus has less of a footprint than growing and manufacturing packs of cigarettes.

I'd say they're about equal. Tobacco's tobacco for your purposes here. They all get purchased at auction, and the only thing that separates snus and cigarettes is the species, and the end use. You could just as easily make cigarettes out of "snus" tobacco, and the other way around.

[sgreger1]

Yah that's what I figured. Maybe the extra chemicals added to cigs somehow affect it but at the end of the day, it's all tobacco, just packaged differently and ingested in through a diferent medium.

[Zanaspus]

Snus is infinitely more green than filter cigarettes. The snus tea bag will degrade fairly quickly. Some filters...well, ever seen a True filter in a urinal after a rock concert? :lol: Those things will be around long after man. :wink:

[Roo]

If you're talking about the "carbon footprint" or some such crap left by using snus compared to cigs, there's always the argument of purchasing things manufactured closer to home. This product has to be shipped all the way from Scandinavia on airplanes, after the tobacco itself and bergamot and other ingredients were shipped to Scandinvia from all over the world for manufacture. With cigs, the contents of each cig likewise get shipped around the world but then end up in North Carolina (to use RJR as an example) and the end-product is shipped to your 7-Eleven from there, instead of by plane from Europe then by courier to your doorstep.

All that was in no way intended to answer your question though, just some points I thought worth considering. As far as trash in concerned, most certainly. Except for people like me who leave a trail of spent portions all over Seattle like Hanzel and Gretel (still better than butts, which I also rarely disposed of properly when I smoked).

[sgreger1]

Lol I am in the process peppering all of northern california with spent snus portions as well. I need a formal snus ashtray, maybe I should start carrying an empty can to put my used portions in.




I was just curious if it could be spun that snusing is the "greener" alternative to smoking, since that seems to be all the craze nowadays.
Not even so much because of the trash, but because of the manufacturing techniques or perhaps a lack of chemical additives. The fact there is no combusted carbon smoke coming out of a portion would automatically make it greener I would imagine.

[lxskllr]

Honestly, I'd go after a different angle. I don't consider being green a slam dunk for snus. Very good arguments can be made either way, and if you want to be factual, it'll be hard condensing it to a Tshirt design.

[sgreger1]

Perhaps companies that wish to sell snus in America need to research how to effectively sell something here: You have to cater to the enviro's the progressives and in some way spin snus as a good way to protest your fathers religion and the big corporations.

Snus for equality!
National Snus day to protest big conglomerates raping the middle class!
Unicorn and rainbow flavored snus specials!

lol, but all kidding aside the green idea probably wasn't a good one, was just wondering if there would be any actual facts to back up the claim that it was greener but sounds like it's probably all about the same considering we have to import it from across the planet.

[lxskllr]

Snus

You only get 2 lungs

[Tristik]

Snus

You only get 2 lungs

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Yeah, what's the carbon footprint on a lung transplant or the surgery needed to have part of your lung removed (my uncle had a cancerous portion of his lung removed because of smoking). There's your eco-friendly-ness.
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[sgreger1]

While that is true, we have to account for the levels of smug produced by those using snus as opposed to smoking like a normal person. Combined with Obama's nobel peace prize acceptance speach smug that's coming in from the east, it could create a perfect storm of smuggyness the likes of which we have never seen.

[Kvlt]

Don't attach snus with the pseudo-environmentalists "green" movement please.

[justintempler]

No second hand smoke.
No third hand smoke. (silly I know)
No spitting.

I think a lot of your snus pouches are made from a synthetic material. You best be careful about making claims about them.