Is low-nicotine Marlboro snus really snus?
Is low-nicotine Marlboro snus really snus?
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DOI：
10.1186/1477-7517-5-9
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Furberg, Helena
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作者：
Foulds, Jonathan;Furberg, Helena
瑞典鼻烟是一种中/高尼古丁含量、低亚硝胺的湿润无烟烟草产品，据估计其危害至少比吸烟烟草低90%。在瑞典，使用鼻烟的男性比吸烟的男性要多，四分之一的前吸烟者改用鼻烟戒烟。领先的跨国香烟制造商已经开始在美国和其他国家试销类似鼻烟的产品。目前在美国销售的菲利普莫里斯万宝路鼻烟在许多方面与瑞典鼻烟不同；它的水分含量和pH值较低，但最令人困惑的是它的尼古丁含量非常低。菲利普莫里斯，美国香烟销售的市场领导者，可能已经设计了这种产品，因此它不能满足吸烟者对尼古丁的渴望，也不能使吸烟者转换。在本文中，我们比较和对比了瑞典鼻烟和万宝路鼻烟，并推测为什么菲利普莫里斯可能故意设计了一种尼古丁含量非常低的产品。我们建议菲利普莫里斯停止使用“鼻烟”一词来指代尼古丁含量低的干烟草产品，以便将该术语保留给湿润、低毒素、中/高尼古丁含量的无烟烟草产品，这些产品在质量上与瑞典的领先品牌相似。
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.