The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the Norwegian Working Environment Institute and the Norwegian Cancer Registry have reviewed all the research that has been done on snuff and cancer. Among other things, the researchers have found that in people who sniff regularly, the risk of cancer of the esophagus is more than three times as high, and the risk of pancreatic cancer is twice as high, study shows. Follows the gastrointestinal tract – We see that precisely for the studies we have, these cancer cases follow the gastrointestinal tract. We also see in the stomach that there was a 40 per cent increased incidence in those who sniffed. These are serious forms of cancer, especially pancreatic cancer, says doctor and researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the Norwegian Institute for the Working Environment, Bendik Brinchmann to news. – What we also see again and again is that the mortality from cancer if you get it and sniff it, it becomes higher, he adds. Enormous increase among young women In Norway, the proportion of young people who snuff has increased dramatically in the last ten years, especially the proportion of young women. If we take women as the starting point who had the lowest consumption pattern, 1 per cent of young women snorted in 2005, while now we are up to close to 20 per cent. Brinchmann believes it is particularly important that women aged 25 to 34 know the risks of sniffing when pregnant. When it comes to sniffing while breastfeeding, the risk is not as well studied. Brinchmann refers to an example from Lillehammer, where a child born to a sniffing mother had clear withdrawal symptoms. Ingrid Stenstadvold Ross is general secretary of the Cancer Society, and like the researcher, is concerned about the findings in the study, precisely because the use of snus has increased so sharply.
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Clear connection between sniffing and several forms of cancer – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
