University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Public Health, Tobacco Dependence Program, 317 George Street, Suite 210, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
Harm Reduct J. 2008 Feb 27;5:9. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-5-9.
Swedish snus is a medium/high nicotine delivery, low-nitrosamine moist smokeless tobacco product that has been estimated to be at least 90% less harmful than smoked tobacco. More men use snus than smoke cigarettes in Sweden, and a quarter of male former smokers quit by switching to snus. Leading multinational cigarette manufacturers have begun test-marketing snus-like products in the United States and other countries. The version of Philip Morris' Marlboro snus currently being marketed in the United States differs from Swedish snus in many ways; it has lower moisture content and pH, but most puzzling is its very low nicotine delivery. Philip Morris, the market-leader in United States cigarette sales, may have designed the product so that it does not satisfy nicotine cravings and fails to enable smokers to switch. In this paper we compare and contrast Swedish snus and Marlboro snus, and speculate as to why Philip Morris may have intentionally designed a product that delivers very low levels of nicotine. We recommend that Philip Morris cease using the term "snus" to refer to dry tobacco products with low nicotine delivery, so that the term be reserved for moist, low-toxin, medium/high nicotine delivery smokeless tobacco products that are qualitatively similar to the leading brands in Sweden.
瑞典鼻烟是一种中/高尼古丁含量、低亚硝胺的湿无烟烟草制品，据估计，其危害比吸烟至少低 90%。在瑞典，使用鼻烟的男性多于吸烟的男性，四分之一的男性前吸烟者通过改用鼻烟而戒烟。主要的跨国卷烟制造商已开始在美国和其他国家测试营销类似鼻烟的产品。菲利普莫里斯公司（Philip Morris）目前在美国市场销售的万宝路鼻烟（Marlboro snus）在许多方面与瑞典鼻烟不同；它的水分和 pH 值较低，但最令人费解的是其尼古丁含量非常低。美国卷烟销售市场的领导者菲利普莫里斯（Philip Morris）可能设计了这款产品，使其无法满足尼古丁的渴望，也无法使吸烟者改用该产品。在本文中，我们比较和对比了瑞典鼻烟和万宝路鼻烟，并推测了菲利普莫里斯（Philip Morris）为何可能有意设计一种尼古丁含量非常低的产品。我们建议菲利普莫里斯（Philip Morris）停止使用“鼻烟”一词来指代低尼古丁含量的干烟草产品，以便将该术语保留给湿的、低毒素、中/高尼古丁含量的无烟烟草制品，这些制品在质量上与瑞典的领先品牌相似。
