Opinion archive

New directives to the Public Health Agency of Sweden - Harm reduction becomes part of the work against smoking

The Swedish strategy for managing tobacco and nicotine use is to change. In practice, this means that the Public Health Agency of Sweden will in future take into account the fact that different forms of nicotine use...

EU elections: why nicotine and white snus have become an election issue

Amid the flurry of 'Swexit' comments and angry outcries about corrupt EU politicians, it's quite clear that the issue of nicotine stirs emotions. And our politicians, from right to left, are good at...

Why go around the world to defend e-cigarettes?

Freelance journalist John Lund took the pulse of Vejpkollen's editor and founder Stefan Mathisson after his trip to Panama and the WHO Tobacco Convention in February 2024. What really happened down there, how does it affect Sweden ...

Debate: "Government must explain itself to Sweden's 1.4 million snus users ahead of WHO meeting"

DEBATE: The EU is concealing its position on snus and white snus ahead of the WHO COP10 conference in Panama. But what are our parliamentary politicians actually doing? This is what Bengt Wiberg, innovator and founder of the consumer network #EUforSnus, asks.

The infected debate on nicotine use - how does it affect you?

The health risks of smokeless nicotine products are significantly lower than those of smoking and cigarettes. But that doesn't matter. It is not a genuine concern about the risk of harm that lies behind bans or...

Editorial: "E-cigs are unnecessary nonsense" she said angrily

OPINION. The social democratic opposition to harm minimisation and new nicotine products is very clear. And quite strange. Vejpkollen's editor-in-chief met Karin Sundin (s), a health politician in the Social Committee. It went like this.

Editorial: "Business as usual" in the factory of death

Editorial: More bans, confusing research, incurable drug addiction and a deadly message to smokers. Tobaksfakta's first newsletter of the season doesn't really add anything new. But what does it matter? Scary headlines are...

Chronicle: How politicians are creating a new Al Capone?

Chronicle: "WHO, Non Smoking Generation, Doctors Against Tobacco and similar organisations have an agenda that leads to disaster." writes Karl-Åke Johansson, NNA Sweden

Chronicle: Hello, government - time to start doing good!

Chronicle: So, Uncle / Aunt State, how about actually checking up on the situation when people import a couple of hundred disposables? Is it a private person who has 400 disposables in ...

WRITING: Why don't you dare to debate, Non Smoking Generation?

COMMENT. "One thought strikes me, why is there space in the media for only one side? Why is NSG allowed to sit and talk completely unchallenged on national TV?"

Chronicle: "Tobacco and harm minimisation, an illogical impossibility?"

OPINION. Our authorities claim that harm minimisation for smokers does not work, and that the decline in the Swedish smoking rate is due to our generous paternity leave. Yes, that is actually what they have said.

Why the tobacco giants win - all the time

Stubborn and cynical lobbying by the anti-smoking lobby leads to e-cigarettes being completely taken over by the tobacco companies. And smokers continue to die.