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How Has the Availability of Snus Influenced Cigarette Smoking in Norway?
Background: In Norway, low-nitrosamine smokeless tobacco (snus) is allowed to compete with cigarettes for market share. We aimed to study how the availability of snus influenced overall tobacco consumption, smoking initiation and smoking cessation. We discuss whether the Norwegian experience with sn...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4245639/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25402565 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph111111705 |
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description | Background: In Norway, low-nitrosamine smokeless tobacco (snus) is allowed to compete with cigarettes for market share. We aimed to study how the availability of snus influenced overall tobacco consumption, smoking initiation and smoking cessation. We discuss whether the Norwegian experience with snus can have any transfer value for e-cigarettes. Methods: We analysed consumption data from registered and unregistered supply sources of tobacco. We calculated quit-smoking ratios across snus use status in nine datasets comprising a total of 19,269 ever-smokers. Trends in snus use and smoking were derived from time-series of annual; cross-sectional; nationally representative surveys for the period 1985–2013. Results: The market share for snus increased from 4% in 1985 to 28% in 2012, but overall tobacco consumption decreased by 20.3% over this same period. Snus was the most common method for smoking cessation. Compared with smokers with no experience of using snus, the quit ratio for smoking was significantly higher for daily snus users in seven of the nine datasets analysed. Among young male adults, the prevalence of smoking (daily + occasional) was reduced from 50% in 1985 to 21% in 2013. Over the same period, use of snus increased from 9% to 33%. This negative correlation (r = −0.900, p < 0.001) was also observed among young females (r = −0.811, p < 0.001), but the trend shift in tobacco preferences occurred some years later. Conclusions: The experience with snus in Norway might indicate what will happen when alternative nicotine products––are allowed to compete with cigarettes in the nicotine market. |
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spelling | pubmed-42456392014-12-02 How Has the Availability of Snus Influenced Cigarette Smoking in Norway? Lund, Ingeborg Lund, Karl Erik Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: In Norway, low-nitrosamine smokeless tobacco (snus) is allowed to compete with cigarettes for market share. We aimed to study how the availability of snus influenced overall tobacco consumption, smoking initiation and smoking cessation. We discuss whether the Norwegian experience with snus can have any transfer value for e-cigarettes. Methods: We analysed consumption data from registered and unregistered supply sources of tobacco. We calculated quit-smoking ratios across snus use status in nine datasets comprising a total of 19,269 ever-smokers. Trends in snus use and smoking were derived from time-series of annual; cross-sectional; nationally representative surveys for the period 1985–2013. Results: The market share for snus increased from 4% in 1985 to 28% in 2012, but overall tobacco consumption decreased by 20.3% over this same period. Snus was the most common method for smoking cessation. Compared with smokers with no experience of using snus, the quit ratio for smoking was significantly higher for daily snus users in seven of the nine datasets analysed. Among young male adults, the prevalence of smoking (daily + occasional) was reduced from 50% in 1985 to 21% in 2013. Over the same period, use of snus increased from 9% to 33%. This negative correlation (r = −0.900, p < 0.001) was also observed among young females (r = −0.811, p < 0.001), but the trend shift in tobacco preferences occurred some years later. Conclusions: The experience with snus in Norway might indicate what will happen when alternative nicotine products––are allowed to compete with cigarettes in the nicotine market. MDPI 2014-11-13 2014-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4245639/ /pubmed/25402565 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph111111705 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lund, Ingeborg Lund, Karl Erik How Has the Availability of Snus Influenced Cigarette Smoking in Norway? |
title | How Has the Availability of Snus Influenced Cigarette Smoking in Norway? |
title_full | How Has the Availability of Snus Influenced Cigarette Smoking in Norway? |
title_fullStr | How Has the Availability of Snus Influenced Cigarette Smoking in Norway? |
title_full_unstemmed | How Has the Availability of Snus Influenced Cigarette Smoking in Norway? |
title_short | How Has the Availability of Snus Influenced Cigarette Smoking in Norway? |
title_sort | how has the availability of snus influenced cigarette smoking in norway? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4245639/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25402565 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph111111705 |
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