Quote (Espen @ Thu, Feb 19 2009, 02:51pm)
That's just because of a over-speculative government focusing on bs propaganda. On cigarette packages it's the warning "smoking kills" etc, on snus it's "may be addicitve, or may be a danger of health".
But since they don't have any specimens actually getting it, or atleast as they can prove is of snus, they can't write "danger of health", they need to put the "may" there. There are many articles covering the subject, but none have actual human specimens backing it up.
I'm not in any way judguingm but how can you seriously believe itæs more dangerous than cigarettes?
Cigarettes kill several million people every single day, while snus have never killed anyone. You can't easiily get cancer, that is just some rumour your friends have todl you, or your prop. chasing government commercials.
It's true that it damages your teeth and gum. It "etches" your gum if you do it regularly over a long period of timee. One of my best friends father has been using it for about 25 years, and he's lost about 5 centimeters on each side of the nose. Never seen anything relating to it reaching the eyes though, since there are significant bonestructure embolishing it.
It is dangerous, but nowhere near the damages of tobacco(as in cigarettes).
One article with no source criticism can't rule over multiple millions of fatal outcomes.
Are you sure that this "its not dangerous" thing isnt just some commercial stuff like they had on tobacco earlier? they actually advertised that tobacco is good for your health when they first stated advertising it. Somehow i doubt that no one has ever died of cancer caused by snus. The reason people dont die on that so much because its no where near as widely used as tobacco. They cant prove its dangers, because there havent been enough research on it, because not meny people use it world wide. And for goverment to put some regulations on some stuff as widely used in some country as snus needs really water proof facts about it, with no huge research where they follow users for like 10+ years you cant get that.
Naturally tobacco companies do what ever they can(and they can do much) to prevent of banning or getting a bad reputation on some products of theyrs.
But i dont really care what people do with theyr own bodies, even if they inject heroin, if they dont harm others. But i think they should be educated what snus, tobacco, alcohol or heroin does to theyr bodies and i find it really disturbing that they dont teach that stuff in school there. I dont mind you using snus, but i dont like people being into denial like that, but belive what you want, i dont think you will change your mind what ever i say about it. But i advice to get some real info about what it CAN do to you.
Iv seen people who are 70+ years old and have been smoking since they were kids and theyr not dead yet. Im saying this because not everyone gets cancer or die on same thing as someone else does.
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There has been meny reseaches like that on tobacco allso, in some it was dangerous and in some it wasnt. Somehow i think tobaccom companies had something to do with those researches where it wasnt. Naturally those were from 50's or so, because now its a known fact that tobacco isnt good for your health.
This post was edited by Tomes on Feb 19 2009 08:13am