SWEDISH SNUS TO APPEAR ON 60 MINUTES!

[Snusdog]

Oh my......more bad press......on 60 Minutes nonetheless.......10s of people are about to be missinformed.



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[daruckis]

Oh my......more bad press......on 60 Minutes nonetheless.......10s of people are about to be missinformed.



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hahahahahahahaha

[f. bandersnatch]

Andy Rooney.



That is all.

[UTVol10]

With the publicity that a story like this brings, I guess I'll ask the question that I've been wondering about since I started snusing a couple months ago:

Would you rather...

(a) Have snus publicized in the media to bring more widespread public awareness of snus (and the potential for commercial sale of snus alongside other tobacco products in stores) in the US?

or

(b) Keep snus relatively "underground" as it seems to be at the moment, with a smaller, more exclusive, but steady base of users and the conventional (i.e. mostly online) sale of snus in the US?

I apologize if that might be a silly question or if it has been talked about in the past but since I started using snus, I've often wondered what others have thought about the potential "risk vs. reward" aspect of snus publicity that seems to be slowly emerging here in the states.

[Snusdog]

With the publicity that a story like this brings, I guess I'll ask the question that I've been wondering about since I started snusing a couple months ago:

Would you rather...

(a) Have snus publicized in the media to bring more widespread public awareness of snus (and the potential for commercial sale of snus alongside other tobacco products in stores) in the US?

or

(b) Keep snus relatively "underground" as it seems to be at the moment, with a smaller, more exclusive, but steady base of users and the conventional (i.e. mostly online) sale of snus in the US?

I apologize if that might be a silly question or if it has been talked about in the past but since I started using snus, I've often wondered what others have thought about the potential "risk vs. reward" aspect of snus publicity that seems to be slowly emerging here in the states.

option #2 hands down

The only advantage I see in public awareness is the potential for snus to be excluded from things like PACT (that is if PACT were indeed about health and kids and concern). But since that ain't ever going to happen.....

Publicity will only bring price increase and corner cutting on production standards to keep up with demand and big tobacco competition.

By the way,

Welcome to the forum UTVol10

glad to have you


Dog 8)

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[burningcow422]

I liked what that guy said at the end. I think this could be a good thing as long as they just don't bash the hell out of it. I'll be sure to watch this.

[lxskllr]

option #2 hands down

The only advantage I see in public awareness is the potential for snus to be excluded from things like PACT (that is if PACT were indeed about health and kids and concern). But since that ain't ever going to happen.....

Publicity will only bring price increase and corner cutting on production standards to keep up with demand and big tobacco competition.

By the way,

Welcome to the forum UTVol10

glad to have you


Dog 8)

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That's my take on it too. If everybody was acting honestly, and had people's best interests at heart, wider publicity would be good. That's not how things work though, so I'd just as soon see it low key. It's already too popular :^/

[Toque Snuff]

Has anyone got a link to the full article? I'd like to watch it.

[BadAxe]

You know, anything that isn't american and is tobacco related will always get bad press in the news.
"Oh no, nicotine!"

As they sit back and drink their alcohol and cofee.

[BadAxe]

If anyone still watches 60-Minutes these days?

I actually watched it last week for the first time in I don't know how long. They had 2 interesting pieces. One on the Russion billionaire that bought the NJ Nets, and another about this guy who goes into bloddy waters to swim with great white sharks. lol. I really wanted to see that.

I just watched the preview, and the interviewer was really making me mad. Of course, since they can't slam it for smoking, since its smokeless, lets harp on the addiction. I LOVED the guys reaction. Lung Cancer is worse. Man I hope she had no comeback for that one.

[tom502]

When is this snus episode? Did I miss it?

[justintempler]

When is this snus episode? Did I miss it?

Sunday, April 4, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

[WickedKitchen]

I'd rather not have the piece on the teevee too. The more mainstream it becomes the more expensive it will become. It's simple economics mixed with tax greed. ...and the government thinks business is greedy in this country. Huh.

I can't see how anything positive will come of this other than maybe having a few more brands available at the corner store in the US...but will it be worth paying $6 or $7 a can?!

at any rate it'll still be cheaper than smoking in more ways than just the cash, but it might force me into more sterks 'cos I would certainly use less of them. at least initially, then I'd be effed 'cos my tolerance would go way up.

I just hate that the guise is always about the kids. Y'know what? Sometimes I don't give a flying eff you see kay about "the children". There's something else lost called parenting that goes hand in hand here. I mean it's not right for the masses to suffer for the possibility that a few children might fall into something bad. After all, it's not about the children anyhow, it's using that emotional angle to get a bigger wow factor. That pisses me off 'cos we see right through it.

[BadAxe]

I just hate that the guise is always about the kids. Y'know what? Sometimes I don't give a flying eff you see kay about "the children". There's something else lost called parenting that goes hand in hand here. I mean it's not right for the masses to suffer for the possibility that a few children might fall into something bad. After all, it's not about the children anyhow, it's using that emotional angle to get a bigger wow factor. That pisses me off 'cos we see right through it.

Spot on. It is NOT the gov't or the masses responsibility to raise our children. It is ours. I am so sick of hearing "Its for the children". I smoked 2 packs of cigs a day for 20 years, I smoke pot everyday of my life. I have a 20 year old son who has never smoked a cig or gotten high. Why? Because I have a good kid (lol) and his mother and I did our job as parents. I didn't need any laws or any gov't, or any group of people to tell me how to parent.

Yes, we see through it, but the sheep, err the majority of the population does not and buys right into it.

[tom502]

Well, I'll try to remember to watch it. But with all the extremist anti-tobacco nazis, that are kowtowed by the US gov, I do think making something more known, will just recruit more people to be against it, but then also, the exposure can bring interested people to check it out too. But in today's world USA, tobacco is bad and evil, brainwashed children, and populace with "truth" commercials, even on DVD commercials. Now I can't say tobacco is fully healthy "good", but it's down the list of bad, smoking might be fairly high, but snus, nasal snuff... way down there. But still, the accepted political view is it's all as bad as smoking.