I just blogged http://www.snusify.com/the-end-of-on...he-eu-for-now/
this is what i said.
You may remember a last year a Finish Cancer Organisation managed to have a Swedish Snus Vendor shutdown. Their method was to place online orders with Snus shops and ‘SnusWorldWide’ was the one that delivered them some snus. The Finish Anti Tobacco Nazis then pressured the Swedish Authorities to enforce a Swedish Law that prohibits snus sales outside of Sweden. The police were involved goods were seized and somebody got some jail time too I heard.
Anyhow here we go again. Here comes Round 2 in the fight.
Welcome to the Octagon in the blue corner some researchers from Bath University here in England.
Silvy Peeters and Anna B Gilmore from the Department of Health in Bath University did a more conclusive test of nearly all the Online Snus shops by placing orders from various EU member states and then recorded things such as prices,tax and delivery etc.
They submitted their report to the Tobacco Control Organisation who subsequently published it.
So as a result of this Northerner informed me that from February 6th 2012 they will not longer ship snus from Sweden to the EU. This includes all their sister sites such as snusuk etc.
The authors of this said research use the usual one sided view against snus with a feeling of venom claiming that t-shirts sporting logos such as ‘snus is the bomb’ ‘stop the eu ban’ encourages children to use tobacco. They make out like these snus shops are master criminals peddling in an evil drug avoiding tax and profiting from poor addicts.
What they fail to mention in their paper is that the Snus ban is most likely going to be lifted at the end of the year. They fail to mention that in terms of harm reduction snus is relatively safe compared to other tobacco products.
EU smokeless tobacco lovers will still be able to order product from America this mean longer delivery time and less choice. I love flying to Sweden so will continue on my snus runs every 4 months.
this is what i said.
You may remember a last year a Finish Cancer Organisation managed to have a Swedish Snus Vendor shutdown. Their method was to place online orders with Snus shops and ‘SnusWorldWide’ was the one that delivered them some snus. The Finish Anti Tobacco Nazis then pressured the Swedish Authorities to enforce a Swedish Law that prohibits snus sales outside of Sweden. The police were involved goods were seized and somebody got some jail time too I heard.
Anyhow here we go again. Here comes Round 2 in the fight.
Welcome to the Octagon in the blue corner some researchers from Bath University here in England.
Silvy Peeters and Anna B Gilmore from the Department of Health in Bath University did a more conclusive test of nearly all the Online Snus shops by placing orders from various EU member states and then recorded things such as prices,tax and delivery etc.
They submitted their report to the Tobacco Control Organisation who subsequently published it.
So as a result of this Northerner informed me that from February 6th 2012 they will not longer ship snus from Sweden to the EU. This includes all their sister sites such as snusuk etc.
The authors of this said research use the usual one sided view against snus with a feeling of venom claiming that t-shirts sporting logos such as ‘snus is the bomb’ ‘stop the eu ban’ encourages children to use tobacco. They make out like these snus shops are master criminals peddling in an evil drug avoiding tax and profiting from poor addicts.
What they fail to mention in their paper is that the Snus ban is most likely going to be lifted at the end of the year. They fail to mention that in terms of harm reduction snus is relatively safe compared to other tobacco products.
EU smokeless tobacco lovers will still be able to order product from America this mean longer delivery time and less choice. I love flying to Sweden so will continue on my snus runs every 4 months.
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