The snus way of stopping smoking

Snus is a smokeless tobacco product that is placed under the upper lip. — AFP

THE Swedish experience in reducing the country’s daily tobacco smoking rate may initially seem similar to the experiences of many other countries’ fight against smoking tobacco.

But unlike others, Sweden appears to have been rather successful in this endeavour – it is now on track to become the first country in the world to be smoke-free with only 5.8% of its adult population still smoking daily, a stark difference from just 18 years ago when that figure stood at 16.5%.