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Luk was up early today to be part of a "Challenge the expert" session starting a 7.30 am. We used this opportunity to talk to him.
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The initial paper published in the June 2006 issue of Tobacco Control.
The mot recent report about the Tobacco Control Scale in Europe in 2016 (pdf format) lists 30 European countries.
Another useful exercise is for your country to "take the test" and see what your score is on the scale.
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Wow, look at that, Sweden is number five. Good score!
And they use more snus than anyone else in Europe... and they have the lowest lung cancer rate... and almost have the lowest ORAL cancer rate, despite using oral tobacco... huh, maybe all that stuff about oral tobacco being a serious risk factor for oral cancer was BS? Or maybe snus, at least, is a very safe oral tobacco product?
Anti-tobacco is garbage. Anti-cigarette is at least sensible.
Adults in the world will never give up nicotine, particularly since it's a very safe drug when separated from the products of tobacco combustion.
It's time that organizations like this begin to promote safe tobacco products (i.e. almost all smokeless products used worldwide, with an emphasis on snus and snus-like products) in addition to promoting abstinence from smoked tobacco products.
Any other policy is causing needless death.
The American health officials who refused to admit that snus is EXTREMELY safe, compared to cigarettes (let alone that there is no statistically significant evidence it has any relationship with cancer, hence the EU taking the cancer warning OFF in 2002!!!!!) truly have blood on their hands.
I hope your group gets its act together and fights the good fight.
It's unbelievable that there are tobacco activists who want to "shield" the public from simple, incontrovertible FACTS about snus and smokeless tobacco in general!
The truth is a good thing. Some of your articles belie this principle. I hope you can remedy this before you cause any more damage.
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