Fresh Air on NPR mentions SNUS

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=126065241

I heard this last night. I love NPR and Terry Gross, but the guy they interviewed sucked. He said SNUS was a brand new thing. Oh well, another bad report IMO.

[Veganpunk]

I can see how most in America would think it's something new. I went to a gas station yesterday, and there were ads all over the place for New! Marlboro Snus and Camel snus. If one doesn't do the internet research, one would think it's new. If they do the research, we end up here!

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Yeah I'm still disappointed. Terry usually does very indepth research. She shoulda known :roll:

[tom502]

It's NEW to America.

[NorSnuser]

It's NEW to America.

That's a misconception that I think the industry wants us to think. Snus was in America a long time ago.

http://www.snuscentral.org/snusnus/r...n-america.html

Here's a cool antique Seal Snus container:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Seal-Snu...item2eac965500

[bsd777]

NPR = Pravda

Yeah I'm still disappointed. Terry usually does very indepth research. She shoulda known :roll:

Sorry, but I disagree. I find most NPR pieces to be biased, misleading or inaccurate. How often do they discuss topics in which you are a subject matter expert? Now would be a good time to question your usual sources of information.

[snusjus]

I congratulate them for bringing up the debate within the health care community as to whether snus would save smokers' lives or hook "children" on nicotine so they become future smokers. At least the "expert" made an effort to research harm reduction, even though his knowledge was not too impressive.

Unfortunately, most of the segment on snus railed against it for being a cigarette replacement when people are not permitted to smoke. This is true when taking American "snus" into account, since these products deliver unsatisfactory amounts of nicotine. When using this argument against Swedish snus, the opposite is the case, since half of all Swedish snus consumers are ex-smokers.

[Owens187]

You know when you start getting anal about snus. When I hear someone pronounce it "snuhs", it makes me want to bitch-slap them.

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Re: NPR = Pravda

... Now would be a good time to question your usual sources of information.

Uh, thanks for the tip Oh Great Wise One. Now would be a good time to kiss my ass :wink:

[bipolarbear1968]

You know when you start getting anal about snus. When I hear someone pronounce it "snuhs", it makes me want to bitch-slap them.

Gosh, that's one of my pet-peeves- snuhs :roll:

[f. bandersnatch]

A. Snus is not new to America at all. "Snus" is just the Swedish word for snuff, a generic term for ground up tobacco (There is a reason it is called Copenhagen.) My only point is that this interview failed before it began by ignoring the history of Scandinavian and American snuff. It was really only considering the American camelesque POS offerings. I am afraid that this is the direction this debate will take in America, and that insightful observation and rational thought will be replaced by a silly sound bite about "dual users" based on the fact that no nicotine addict could ever exist on that crap exclusively.

B. I love Terry Gross. It's not so much that she does extensive research, she does a good job, but it is her talent for pulling insightful conversation from people that really impresses me. She's the one in this interview pointing out the harm reduction value of snus. That guy she was talking to is the one that should know something about the history of snus. Terry shouldn't be there to embarrass that fool by doing his job for him, that is not her job.

C. If you don't like NPR, that is perfectly reasonable. I don't like having sex with dudes, so I don't go to the gay bar down the street from my house. No reason to rip into other people because they want to listen to car talk.

D. This American Life is on tomorrow morning. Being that I am clearly a threat to the American dream and an ignorant, agenda-pushing liberal, there shouldn't be any harm in my admitting to you people that this is the only reason I wake on Sunday morning (no church for me, too many orgies to be had. And I have to find time somewhere in my busy schedule to help child molesters get out of prison!)

[deebocools]

I listen to car talk and this american life(the TV version is good too). I don't care mch for the other shows. the local news is always done really well, at least around here.

In any case, I think all press is good press. If reporters really thought there wasn't anything worth discussing about snus because it's just another form of dip, they wouldn't be discussing it. Instead, popular media is starting to pay attention. Just because they don't represent our party line of "Snus on", doesn't mean they aren't doing a good thing. The examples of snus users they use are unfortunate, but everytime something like this happens tons of people flock here who thought the themselves "that couldn't be the whole story..." and learn about swedish snus.

all in all, it's a slow process.