Source: Brownstone Institute
by Roger Bate
“Nicotine pouches — small, smokeless packets tucked under the lip — deliver nicotine without burning tobacco. They eliminate the tar, carbon monoxide, and carcinogens that make cigarettes so deadly. The logic of harm reduction couldn’t be clearer: if smokers can get nicotine without smoke, millions of lives could be saved. Sweden has already proven the point. Through widespread use of snus and nicotine pouches, the country has cut daily smoking to about 5 percent, the lowest rate in Europe. Lung-cancer deaths are less than half the continental average. This ‘Swedish Experience’ shows that when adults are given safer options, they switch voluntarily — no prohibition required. In the United States, however, the FDA’s tobacco division has turned this logic on its head.” (10/23/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/fdas-war-on-commonsense-nicotine-regulation/