The case summarized: Tobacco -free snuff is illegal in Norway, and it is punishable to take it into the country. Several parties, including Frp, Right and Left, want to abolish the ban, and believe it is a healthier alternative to tobacco snuff. In 2022, snuff producers were rejected by the Directorate of Health on their application for approval of tobacco -free snuff with nicotine, as it is considered a new nicotine product. The Directorate of Health believes that tobacco -free snuff can be a gateway for younger people to become nicotine addicts, and therefore does not want to do so legally. The summary is made by a Ki service from Openai. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publishing. – I think it’s a completely silly ban. The deputy chair of the Health and Care Committee at the Storting, Bård Hoksrud (Frp), talks about the Norwegian ban on tobacco-free snuff. Both the snuff producers and the Public Health Institute (FHI) believe that such snuff is less harmful to health than snuff with tobacco. Bård Hoksrud has felt tired of the ban on tobacco -free snuff in Norway. Photo: Christian Ziegler Remme / news Still, the full -white, tobacco -free snuff has been illegal to take into Norway since it was introduced to the market in 2017. If you bring the illegal product across the border, regardless of quantity, it is criminal and end up on the scroll. Then you no longer have impeccable conduct – if you had it before. – I think it is tragic that those who want a healthier alternative should be fined because it is illegal in Norway. It should be a product you are cheering for, says Hoksrud. Storting representative for the Left, Alfred Bjørlo, calls the regulations meaningless. – We have some real problems in this country that we must try to solve. This is a constructed problem that makes people offenders for nothing, says Bjørlo. Penalty for importing illegal snuff, tobacco etc. Police have these indicative fines for the import of illegal tobacco and nicotine products: Up to 0.5 kilos- submission NOK 400,- from 0.5 to 0.75 kg- submission NOK. 800,- from 0.75 to 1 kg- submission kr. 1,600,- from 1.0 kg to 1.25 kg- submission NOK. 2,500,- from 1.25 to 1.5 kg- submissions kr. 3,600,- from 1.5 to 2 kg- submission kr. 6.100,- from 2.0 to 5 kg- submissions kr. 15,500 from 5 to 20 kg – fine of kr. 62,500,- from 20 to 30 kg- fine of kr. 100,000 over 30 kg – here it should be considered to make charges – that is, possible prison sentences in addition to fine. The fines you can get when introducing white snuff, water pipe tobacco, e-cigarettes, etc. are regulated by the Tobacco Injury Act with regulations. Source: Eastern police district wants logical rules at the Progress Party’s national meeting Last weekend, the party decided that tobacco -free snuff should be allowed in Norway. In the past, both the Right and Left have adopted the same. Three out of four bourgeois parties thus want to cancel today’s ban. – I think it’s very special. We have a clear goal in Norway to reduce the use of tobacco. Then we mean that we should open up to be able to sell snuff without tobacco, says member of the Storting’s Health and Care Committee, Erlend Svardal Bøe (H). Bjørlo calls the Norwegian ban a paradox. Photo: Eirik Pessl-Kleiven / news Bjørlo believes it is a paradox that snuff without tobacco is illegal in Norway. – We in the Left are committed to having a regulatory framework that is logical and understandable to most people. It also increases the will among people to comply with the regulations when you see the logic in it. Then we have to clean up this here, says the parliamentary representative, says Alfred Bjørlo. – Quite headless in 2022, snuff producers were rejected by the Directorate of Health on their application for approval of tobacco -free snuff with nicotine. Since the tobacco has been removed from this type of snuff, it is considered a new nicotine product. Erlend Svardal Bøe will open up snuff without tobacco. Photo: Andreas Lekang / news Thus, the Tobacco Injury Act of 1989 is broken, which states that it is prohibited to introduce new tobacco or nicotine products that are not approved in Norway. – I think it’s pretty headless. If the goal is to reduce tobacco use in Norway, then we think it will be wrong to have a requirement that you have tobacco in the snuff, says Svardal Bøe. In the Norwegian market you can buy white snuff today, but in this snuff the manufacturers have added tobacco for it to be legal to sell. – It just shows how idiotic this ban is, says Hoksrud. From left: Helhvit tobacco -free snuff, white snuff and brown snuff. The snuff of the brand Zyn is illegal in Norway. Photo: Heather Ørbeck Eliassen fears popularity imports The Directorate of Health, for its part, believes that the white tobacco -free snuff can be a gateway for younger people to start with snuff and become nicotine addicts. Therefore, they do not want to make tobacco -free snuff legal. – Nicotine in snuff is very addictive. By preventing children and adolescents from using snuff, the likelihood that they later begin to smoke or use other tobacco products are reduced. This is stated by Division Director Linda Granlund in the Directorate of Health. – Tobacco -free snuff, that is, nicotine snuff, is considered in the regulations as a new product and requires approval from the Directorate of Health to get on the Norwegian market. So far, approval has not been granted in the cases the Directorate of Health has dealt with, says Linda Granlund. Photo: Andreas Lekang / news She also points out that countries such as France and the Netherlands have recently banned the sale of Nicotinsnus because it is increasingly popular with young people. – Figures from other European countries show that nicotine snuff has quickly become very popular with young people. It is likely that the same trend will strike in Norway. – An appealing product, according to Statistics Norway’s survey of tobacco use in the population, used 20 per cent of the Norwegian population snuff in 2024. In addition, there have been more pupils at youth and high school who are sniffing daily or weekly since 2021. The Ministry of Health points out that all new tobacco and nicotine products must be sold in the grocery store. State Secretary in the Ministry of Health Usman Mushtaq points out that they are the Directorate of Health who has the last word. Photo: Hallgeir Aunan Usman Ahmad Mushtaq is Secretary of State in the Ministry of Health. He also explains that there is no direct ban on tobacco -free snuff, as those who want it can get snuff -like products at the pharmacy. But in these products, the amount of nicotine is very low. – All new tobacco and nicotine products to be sold in grocery stores must be assessed by the Directorate of Health, which should particularly emphasize whether the product can appeal to children and young people, says Mushtaq. – Nicotine snuff has been considered such an appealing product, adds the Secretary of State. Hoksrud understands little of the argument. – Those who want to start sniffing, they do it anyway. But if you choose to start sniffing, it is better to sniff tobacco -free snuff than snuff with tobacco. Hello! Welcome to dialogue at news. Since you are logged in with other news services, you do not have to log in again here, but we need your consent to our Terms of Use for Dialogue online Published 12.05.2025, at. 05.29
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