The EU must listen!

[rickcharles606]

Seriously ... I'm not one to hold back from trying to impose my views on others ... you may have noticed!

I have really tried to switch people I know who smoke over to snus ... I have not had a single success. Some have tried it - normally drunkenly in a bar when it was raining or on an aeroplane flight.

It just takes an unusual person to decide to go for snus in our circumstances ... and given how difficult it is to get hold of over here, they're just not going to even contemplate it as an alternative to smoking, even if they see why they should ... well done EU!

I am almost bursting with fury at how stupid the whole situation is. Snus is the way for many many smokers to regain a better quality of life - it's also a tobacco product with a whole wealth of history and has a type of gourmet quality in the subtleties of it's flavours ... the world would be a far poorer place if this ban on flavourings comes in to force. But to win - you have to accept the truths out there ... and it needs some kind of subversive advertising within the EU for anyone to get in to it!

I share in your frustration, my friend. I no longer try to "switch" people, only to teach them about the science behind snus, and eventually people call and ask to try it. I remember when I was smoking and people would tell "quit because it's killing you"...I'd get pissed off, and wouldn't listen to another word they had to say. It wasn't until I truly wanted to quit that I started researching, and we all know that everyone reaches that point in their "smoking life". When they do, if you've told them about snus...they'll remember.

I realize that everyone in Sweden is up in arms about the EU ban on snus, but frankly...the EU doesn't care about people in Sweden. Which is sad, but true. Now, if the OTHER people in the EU knew as much about snus as say, the Swedish public...then maybe the EU would sit up and listen. I don't know but this whole situation in the EU and with our US FDA is pissing me off.

[Bigblue1]

I commend you Jimmy and hope this works out. BTW the samples were fantastic.