'EU bluff on snus'
Snuff Professor: They read research like hell reads the Bible
All research shows that Swedish snus is less harmful than other tobacco products.
Despite this, the EU continues claims that it leads to cancer.
- They take the bits that suit their purposes. You can read research like hell reads the Bible says Professor Tony Axell, who conducted studies on snus for the EU's behalf.
For just a few days ago, the European Commission's Swedish Manager "Pierre Schellekens" was in a question and answer session on Twitter about snus and the new tobacco directive. There, he wrote among other things:
"There is no evidence that snus reduces smoking" and "... snus is harmful as science says. "
What science he was reffering too was not stated though.
No cancer studies
According to Tony Axell, professor of dentistry and one of Sweden's foremost snus researchers, snus has the opposite proved to be a good weaning product for smokers. He also says that there are no studies showing that Swedish snus causes cancer.
In an EU survey from May of this year states that "15 percent of Swedish men have quit smoking by using snus". But critics of the organization have tried to prove that snus does not reduce smoking.
Used "Tipp-Ex" in report
2003 ordered the EU to a research report showed that snus is not as harmful as the Union wanted to produce it. As previously revealed at Aftonbladet, they rewrote the report and "Tip-Ex'd" away parts of it to serve the Commission, folkhälsoinstitutens and pharmaceutical corporate purposes.
2008, a new report-the so-called SCENIHR report. It should guide the new tobacco directive in the EU. Although the study broadly producing snus harmless it is often used as a reference in order to prove the opposite - ie that snus causes cancer. But in summary, which says that smokeless tobacco products increases the risk of cancer, it has been bundled with the Swedish snus chewing tobacco imported from countries such as India, Africa and the United States - Tobacco products much more dangerous than snus.
"Leads to Disease"
- There are a number of reports that we use where there is evidence that snus is addictive, leads to cardiovascular disease and some forms of cancer, said Pierre Schellekens about the background of his Twitter posts.
What are the reports?
- The SCENIHR report from 2008.
You tweeted that there is no evidence that snus reduces smoking. What you base it on?
- That's the assessment is being done right now. We do not think snus causes people to smoke less.
But in the EU Survey reported that the 15 percent of Swedish men have quit smoking by using snus.
- That is an opinion poll and not a scientific survey, he says.
The EU finds itself in its latest survey that snus is effective for those who want to quit smoking. That is the exact opposite of what Pierre Schellekens and European Commission Representation Sweden tweeted about:
Swedish men smoke at least in the EU and at the lowest risk of tobacco-related disease and death.
15 percent of Swedish men have quit smoking by using snus.
Swedes smoke far less than in the EU. 13 percent, while the EU average is 28 percent. Top is Greece with 40 percent.
In Denmark, where snus is banned, smoking 28 percent and the death rate for smoking is three times as high for men as for Danish Swedish.
Source: Attitudes Europeans TOWARDS OF TOBACCO, published in May 2012
In Swedish: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article15556487.ab
Snuff Professor: They read research like hell reads the Bible
All research shows that Swedish snus is less harmful than other tobacco products.
Despite this, the EU continues claims that it leads to cancer.
- They take the bits that suit their purposes. You can read research like hell reads the Bible says Professor Tony Axell, who conducted studies on snus for the EU's behalf.
For just a few days ago, the European Commission's Swedish Manager "Pierre Schellekens" was in a question and answer session on Twitter about snus and the new tobacco directive. There, he wrote among other things:
"There is no evidence that snus reduces smoking" and "... snus is harmful as science says. "
What science he was reffering too was not stated though.
No cancer studies
According to Tony Axell, professor of dentistry and one of Sweden's foremost snus researchers, snus has the opposite proved to be a good weaning product for smokers. He also says that there are no studies showing that Swedish snus causes cancer.
In an EU survey from May of this year states that "15 percent of Swedish men have quit smoking by using snus". But critics of the organization have tried to prove that snus does not reduce smoking.
Used "Tipp-Ex" in report
2003 ordered the EU to a research report showed that snus is not as harmful as the Union wanted to produce it. As previously revealed at Aftonbladet, they rewrote the report and "Tip-Ex'd" away parts of it to serve the Commission, folkhälsoinstitutens and pharmaceutical corporate purposes.
2008, a new report-the so-called SCENIHR report. It should guide the new tobacco directive in the EU. Although the study broadly producing snus harmless it is often used as a reference in order to prove the opposite - ie that snus causes cancer. But in summary, which says that smokeless tobacco products increases the risk of cancer, it has been bundled with the Swedish snus chewing tobacco imported from countries such as India, Africa and the United States - Tobacco products much more dangerous than snus.
"Leads to Disease"
- There are a number of reports that we use where there is evidence that snus is addictive, leads to cardiovascular disease and some forms of cancer, said Pierre Schellekens about the background of his Twitter posts.
What are the reports?
- The SCENIHR report from 2008.
You tweeted that there is no evidence that snus reduces smoking. What you base it on?
- That's the assessment is being done right now. We do not think snus causes people to smoke less.
But in the EU Survey reported that the 15 percent of Swedish men have quit smoking by using snus.
- That is an opinion poll and not a scientific survey, he says.
The EU finds itself in its latest survey that snus is effective for those who want to quit smoking. That is the exact opposite of what Pierre Schellekens and European Commission Representation Sweden tweeted about:
Swedish men smoke at least in the EU and at the lowest risk of tobacco-related disease and death.
15 percent of Swedish men have quit smoking by using snus.
Swedes smoke far less than in the EU. 13 percent, while the EU average is 28 percent. Top is Greece with 40 percent.
In Denmark, where snus is banned, smoking 28 percent and the death rate for smoking is three times as high for men as for Danish Swedish.
Source: Attitudes Europeans TOWARDS OF TOBACCO, published in May 2012
In Swedish: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article15556487.ab
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