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Chuck Levy, owner of Iwan Ries & Co., a fifth-generation family-owned tobacco purveyor at Wabash and Madison that’s home to one of the city’s only surviving legal smoking lounges, said he used to carry Marlboro and Camel Snus. But he said they didn’t sell as well as General Snus, a popular Swedish brand. “We sell it to young people, old people.
They come in suits as well as jeans,” he said. With smoking bans in place, Levy said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], many are looking for a replacement that can also give them the oral sensation they get from smoking. Smokeless products also help adhere to smoking policies. Douglas Luke, director of the Center for Tobacco Policy Research at Washington University in St. Louis, said, “The smoke-free policies tend to be around protecting people from exposure to secondhand smoke. So, since smokeless products don’t have that, the gold standards are silent on that.”
Dr. Frank Leone, director of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center’s Comprehensive Smoking Treatment Program,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said smoke-free alternatives to cigarettes are a way for cigarette smokers to prolong their addiction to nicotine. It’s what he calls the “compromise position” — not as healthy as quitting, but not as unhealthy as smoking. “It’s much more likely that people will find and seek out that compromise position than stop altogether,” he said.
Rob Cunningham from the Canadian Cancer Society admitted that the tobacco companies are introducing more and more flavored cigarette brands to the international tobacco market, including chocolate, cherry and apple-flavored cigarettes to attract adolescents to smoking. Representatives of the tobacco companies,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which are strongly against restrictions on flavored tobacco stating they would harm the industry and small business, set up a tent near the hotel where the WHO conference was held to declare their opinion on the issue.
Tobacconists state flavored tobacco accounts for half of worldwide consumption and say they grow and use three kinds of tobacco leaves: Burley, Virginia and Oriental. Therefore, they are concerned that the restrictions would cause prohibitions of some of the best-selling brands. “If they ban manufacture of the American blend, which is produced from a mix of Virginia, Burley and Oriental tobacco, it would affect nearly six million growers and manufacturers across the world,” declared Antonio Abrunhosa,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a tobacco-farmer from Portugal who is also executive director of the International Tobacco Growers’ Association (ITGA).