HARM reduction is a concept that many people and governments struggle with, especially when dealing with recreational drugs. Take smoking, for example. Even smokers know it is dangerous. Many would like to give up and many have tried. Such is the power of nicotine and social conditioning that most fail. Yet there is a safer alternative.
Snus, or sucking tobacco, comes in pouches that sit between lip and gum. In Sweden it can be bought at local stores and its advocates argue that unlike nicotine patches or gum, snus is enjoyable. Consequently, hundreds of thousands of men have switched from…
