The matter in summary On January 1, requirements will be introduced for minimum sizes for snus. The aim of the tightening is to reduce snuff use among young people. Portion snus must contain at least 15 grams of tobacco, and each box must contain at least 20 snus. Loose snuff can only be sold if they contain more than 30 grams of tobacco. Several products will be taken off the market and thousands of boxes will have to be destroyed, according to tobacco retailers. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAI. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. From 1 January, minimum requirements will be introduced for the contents of snuff boxes. This means that a number of snus products will no longer be able to be sold as they are produced today. The aim of the ban is to reduce snuff use among young people. Small packages increase accessibility for minors because they are cheaper, according to the Directorate of Health. – A regulation of the minimum size of snuff packs can therefore make the product less attractive and accessible to young people, and thus reduce snuff use, writes the directorate. These are the new rules From New Year’s, cans of portioned snus must contain at least 15 grams of tobacco. Each individual box must also contain at least 20 snus. A number of mini-snus products today contain less than 10 grams of tobacco per tin. Will fewer young people snuff when smaller snuff boxes are banned? Boxes of loose snuff can only be sold if they contain more than 30 grams of tobacco. A similar minimum size requirement was introduced for smoke in 2013. Today, it is forbidden to sell packs of less than 20 cigarettes. Portion snus such as Skruf No29 portion S4 will not be affected by the restrictions, because it contains more than 15 grams of tobacco. Photo: Benjamin Vorland Andersrød / news Must destroy thousands of boxes The new regulations come into force on 1 January 2024, without any kind of transition period. The shops are therefore not allowed to sell small snuff boxes they still have in stock after the New Year. – We have to destroy several thousand snuff boxes, writes Ståle Jacobsen in an e-mail to news. He is sales and marketing manager at the tobacco retailer M. Sørensen. The brands WTF, Snatch and NF will disappear from the market, according to Jacobsen. However, most of the “mini products” will be relaunched in larger boxes adapted to the new rules. – In these cases, the prices change as increased weight in the packaging means increased tobacco taxes, writes Jacobsen. More products are taken off the market According to Snuslageret.no, several different snus products will be taken off the market. A review news has done in their online store shows that the following products will not be sold in the future: Epok No19 Ice Blue Intense Mini S4 General No7 White Mini Mocca No1 Pink S1 Mocca No2 Black S1 Zyn All White Bellini Mini Dry Zyn All White Cool Blue S4 Mini Dry General No7 White Mini will continue to be sold in Sweden. The picture was taken at Nordby Shoppingcenter on 26 December. Photo: Rahand Bazaz / news More and more people snuff 15 percent of the Norwegian population between the ages of 16 and 74 snuff daily. This is shown by figures from Statistics Norway (SSB). On average, two out of ten Norwegian men put at least one snuff under their lips every single day. In comparison, only one in ten women snuffs on a daily basis. – It is clear that more young men snuff than young women, but in the last year the figures show a relatively clear increase in the proportion of young women who snuff, said adviser at Statistics Norway Sindre Mikael Haugen when the figures were presented in January this year.
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Ban on small snuff boxes from 1 January – news Oslo og Viken – Local news, TV and radio
