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Pancreatic Cancer

Swedish snus much safer than smoking but linked to pancreatic cancer

Published in Gastroenterology Week, May 21st, 2007

Swedish "snus"- an oral, smoke free tobacco – has proven much less harmful to health than conventional smoking tobacco. Snus causes no increased risk for lung or mouth cancer for never-smokers and could produce a net health benefit to the population if smokers switched to using it. But users of Snus are twice as likely to contract pancreatic cancer than never-smokers. The findings are revealed in two Articles published early Online and in an upcoming edition of the Lancet.

In the first Article, Dr Coral Gartner, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia and colleagues assessed the potential population health effects of snus in Australia to...

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