Camel SNUS is not real snus and made in the US.
Camel snus IS real snus and made in Sweden.
I merely go by what is referenced on the tins themselves to keep things clear,
Silly WerkIt, you assume I pay attention to what's printed on the cans?
LOL
Ok, SNUS = American knockoff, snus = Swedish made. I can live with that. Oddly enough, tobaccoproducts.org lists the American ones as Camel SNUS, and the Swedish ones as CAMEL Snus. To further irk me, they aren't even consistent with the stupid capitalization scheme, referring to the American SNUS as Camel Snus. All in all, I like your system best.
Ok, at first glance, they seem to have some facts about Camel SNUS, but I'll have to delve deeper to see where they get the info. So far we have:
Product Design Features
- Contains pasteurized tobacco, water, pouch materials, flavors (including menthol for Camel Snus Frost), sodium carbonate, and sodium chloride
- Nicotine (Original): 14.5 mg/g ; Free Nicotine, 2.4 mg/g ; Total TSNA: 1.4 mg/g
- Nicotine content could vary by product flavor type as a specific intention of the manufacturer to create a consumer acceptable nicotine effect-flavor balance
Camel Snus is a spitless, Swedish-style dry snuff which has lower TSNA levels and is potentially less harmful than other SLT products. The product is the first smokeless tobacco product to be marketed by a cigarette company in the US, and appears to have been developed to appeal to smokers. The product is made in Sweden under contract to Reynolds American. Like Swedish-style snus products, Camel Snus is pasteurized which inhibits development of TSNAs. Camel Snus also has low salt, which produces less saliva and reduces the need for spitting.
I find myself curious about the distinction between nicotine and
free nicotine. Anybody have any idea what it means?
Anyway, it looks like Camel SNUS
might be made according to Swedish standards since they are actually manufactured in Sweden. According to the site, that last paragraph is attributed to: "Rees, Vaughn W., Connolly, Gregory N.; Potentially Reduced Exposure Tobacco Products: A Public Health Information Guide; 2008 Harvard School of Public Health".
The site does go on to to list:
Human Use and Exposure
- Human exposure: not yet conducted or not available
Toxicity Analyses
- Ames method in vitro: not yet conducted or not available
- In vivo MSP: not yet conducted or not available
- Animal exposure: not yet conducted or not available
Well, I have no idea how accurate any of the above info is, but at least we have something resembling hard data on Camel SNUS.
EDIT: I just found out that Marlboro is test marketing a Snus brand, and it seems they've been caught pulling some questionable tactics of the type WerkIt was suspecting.
http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/pdf/1477-7517-5-9.pdf is a
really interesting read!