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[โ€“] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Synthetic nicotine (non-tobacco) snus, which are usually just called nicotine pouches or "all-white", are not banned for consumption in the rest of the EU. A lot of countries have bans on the sale of flavoured nicotine or menthol nicotine products due to menthol cigarettes which covers a lot of all-white nicotine pouches but you can still consume them.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Except for in France for example, where consumption of tobacco-free snus is now illegal.

    https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/actualites/A18450?lang=en

    But of course, they explicitly allow chewing tobacco, which is 100x worse for your health than tobacco snus.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Good to know - Crazy they did that but you can still buy tobacco.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    The general idea of the snus-bans is that snus is not commonly consumed outside of the Nordics, so it's better to pre-emptively ban it. They are trying to nip it in the bud before it becomes a problem.

    Cigarettes are socially and culturally engrained after a century of normalization, and it's a lot more difficult to ban it. Even vapes are already somewhat at the stage where it's nornalized enough that outright banning it becomes difficult.

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