• Al Capone$44.00
• Astra$7.60
• Atis$15.30
• Avalon$12.40
• Beratt$15.10
• Bond Street$12.40
• Camel$17.00
• Chesterfield$15.10
• Cigaronne$20.10
• Classic$11.10
• Cosmos$9.43
• Davidoff$21.10
• Doina$10.10
• Dunhill$31.10
• Esse$16.70
• Eva$14.70
• Focus$11.10
• Fluieras$10.10
• Glamour$14.20
• Hilton$11.10
• Karelia$18.10
• Kent$18.90
• Kiss$13.90
• L&M$14.10
• Lady$13.80
• Leana$8.10
• LD$8.40
• Luceafar$9.60
• Lucky Strike$15.60
• Marengo$22.60
• Marlboro$18.70
• Monte Carlo$12.60
• Moods$56.60
• MT$10.60
• Nistru$8.60
• OK$13.10
• Orbita$9.60
• Pall Mall$15.30
• Parliament$22.60
• Plai$10.10
• Plugarul$10.10
• Prima Lux$11.60
• Prefect$12.40
• R1 Slim$17.40
• Red & White$11.10
• Rich$16.70
• Richmond$31.10
• Ritm$11.10
• Sobranie$38.70
• Style$12.10
• Temp$10.10
• Viceroy$11.60
• Virginia$17.70
• Vogue$21.10
• Wind$12.40
• Winston$15.60
• Zimbru$9.60

What is Snus?

There were only 13% of daily smokers in 2005 in Sweden. The main answer is that many Swedish men get their nicotine habit not from cigarettes but from a Scandinavian product – snus. This is a moist tobacco placed in a small sachet that is put under the top lip. Snus does not cause spitting, that is why it is cleaner and more acceptable in the public places than traditional chewing tobacco.

Snus is much safer to use than slim cigarettes but nicotine may be strongly addictive. The smoke produces carcinogens when tobacco is burned. The Swedes have found a way how to get nicotine without smoking. According to the statistics they have the lowest lung cancer level in Europe. Unlike cigarette smoking, snus also causes little or no risk of mouth cancer.

Among the low-income population, the smoking level is still about 60%. Professor Martin Jarvis, a psychologist practicing in tobacco dependence at University College in London, says: “And if you look at particular sub-groups, it's higher. In some psychiatric patients it's 70% or more, among homeless people living rough it's over 80%, and among prisoners in jail it's over 80%. In a way, that's the strongest indicator that smoking isn't going to go away, because the prevalence in those deprived groups has really stayed pretty much the same over the past 30 years. Research shows that deprived people want to give up just as much as those in more affluent groups, but, for a mixture of reasons, they find it harder. They grow up and live among fellow smokers; they are more nicotine-dependent because they are heavier smokers and draw more deeply on each cigarette; and poverty may be burden enough without taking on the strain of withdrawal”.

Snus has a long history and became popular in the 1970s. Snus is banned throughout the European Union by European law, except in Sweden.

In Sweden, Dr Goran Boethius, chairman of the non-profit Doctors Against Tobacco, says: “It is clear why tobacco companies are promoting snus. This is the latest trick to keep up or increase nicotine dependence – to stay in business. And clean nicotine is better than dirty nicotine, the cigarette being the dirtiest nicotine product of all. But snus is also dirty, containing maybe 2,000 chemicals instead of the 4,000 in cigarette smoke”.