We couldn't find the exact figure, but Camel Snus averaged $4.60 per package, $0.30 more than the Camel cigarettes.
Camel Snus, a smokeless spitless tobacco product, consists of pasteurized tobacco portioned into 0.6 gram (Mellow, Frost) and 1.0 gram (Robust, Winterchill) pouches. It is available in four flavors: Mellow, Robust, Frost, and Winterchill.
Snus -- pronounced "snoose," like “loose” -- is a smokeless, moist powder tobacco pouch from Sweden that you place under your top lip.
You don’t burn it, and you don’t have to spit when you use it.
“Compared to cigarette smoking, the use of snus is probably less harmful,” says Michael Steinberg, MD, MPH, director of the tobacco dependence program at Rutgers University. “But there’s a big difference between ‘less harmful’ and safe.”
“I’d rather have a person do nothing, but of tobacco products, it’s down on the lower end” of the harm scale, says Eric Garrison, assistant director of health promotion at the College of William & Mary.
Compared to cigarettes, snus seems less dangerous. “It’s difficult to say that something is as toxic for you as smoking a cigarette unless you’re starting to talk about ingesting cyanide or rat poison,” says Erika Sward, assistant vice president of national advocacy for the American Lung Association.
In Sweden, the makers of snus have asked the FDA for permission to say on the product label that snus is safer than cigarettes. Currently, the warning on Swedish snus cans says, “This tobacco product damages your health and is addictive.”
To know more about this smokeless tobacco, visit WebMD.
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