Snus health
Some articles about snus and health
Smoking, but not using snus, increases risk of diabetes
Men who smoke run a substantial risk of developing diabetes. On the other hand, there is no evidence to indicate that using snus (moist snus) increases such a risk.
These are the results of a collaborative study involving Sunderby Hospital, Luleå, and Umeå University. The study, carried out under the leadership of Associate Professor Mats Eliasson, is published in the August issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine. Co-authors of the article are Kjell Asplund, Brad Rodu, and Salmir Nasic. In Sweden some 250,000 people suffer from type 2 diabetes, so-called age-related diabetes. The causes are most often a combination of heredity, obesity, and physical inactivity. Recent research has also singled out psychosocial stress and smoking as underlying factors. Since snus users are exposed to at least as much nicotine as smokers and using snus is extremely common in northern Sweden, the research team has investigated whether using snus increases the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes. Within the framework of the MONICA study in northern Sweden, 3,384 men between the ages of 25 and 74 were studied. Just over half were re-examined after 9 years. The occurrence of diabetes was almost doubled among smokers but did not increase among snus users. In the follow-up smokers evinced a quadrupled risk of developing diabetes and ex-smokers a tripled risk. Among snus users no one developed diabetes. The differences in risk could not be explained by physical activity, alcohol consumption, or various degrees of abdominal fat. The study supports earlier studies from the MONICA group that did not indicate any increased risk of heart attacks among snus users, unlike smokers, whose risk did increase.
Smoking, but not using snus, increases risk of diabetes
Men who smoke run a substantial risk of developing diabetes. On the other hand, there is no evidence to indicate that using snus (moist snus) increases such a risk.
These are the results of a collaborative study involving Sunderby Hospital, Luleå, and Umeå University. The study, carried out under the leadership of Associate Professor Mats Eliasson, is published in the August issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine. Co-authors of the article are Kjell Asplund, Brad Rodu, and Salmir Nasic. In Sweden some 250,000 people suffer from type 2 diabetes, so-called age-related diabetes. The causes are most often a combination of heredity, obesity, and physical inactivity. Recent research has also singled out psychosocial stress and smoking as underlying factors. Since snus users are exposed to at least as much nicotine as smokers and using snus is extremely common in northern Sweden, the research team has investigated whether using snus increases the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes. Within the framework of the MONICA study in northern Sweden, 3,384 men between the ages of 25 and 74 were studied. Just over half were re-examined after 9 years. The occurrence of diabetes was almost doubled among smokers but did not increase among snus users. In the follow-up smokers evinced a quadrupled risk of developing diabetes and ex-smokers a tripled risk. Among snus users no one developed diabetes. The differences in risk could not be explained by physical activity, alcohol consumption, or various degrees of abdominal fat. The study supports earlier studies from the MONICA group that did not indicate any increased risk of heart attacks among snus users, unlike smokers, whose risk did increase.
Study: The Effects of snus on Smoking and Public Health
Sweden
Excerpts from: Effect of smokeless
tobacco (snus) on smoking and public
health in Sweden
Snus is manufactured
and stored in a manner that causes it to
deliver lower concentrations of some
harmful chemicals than other tobacco
products, although it can deliver high
doses of nicotine. It is dependence
forming, but does not appear to cause
cancer or respiratory diseases. It may
cause a slight increase in
cardiovascular risks and is likely to be
harmful to the unborn fetus, although
these risks are lower than those caused
by smoking. There has been a larger drop
in male daily smoking (from 40% in 1976
to 15% in 2002) than female daily
smoking (34% in 1976 to 20% in 2002) in
Sweden, with a substantial proportion
(around 30%) of male ex-smokers using
snus when quitting smoking. Over the
same time period, rates of lung cancer
and myocardial infarction have dropped
significantly faster among Swedish men
than women and remain at low levels as
compared with other developed countries
with a long history of tobacco use.
Conclusions: Snus
availability in Sweden appears to have
contributed to the unusually low rates
of smoking among Swedish men by helping
them transfer to a notably less harmful
form of nicotine dependence.
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