It's interesting stuff. I still have a difficult time quitting smoking, but i at least found an alternative that actually made me satisfied enough that i didn't request cigs. This was camel snus. My friend got it one day for the sheer fact that it was cheap and that was it. It doesn't need to be refrigerated, comes in pouches, and is spitless.
I tried out a pouch after i did lots of research on the stuff, and well, there's no smoke involved. I got my nicotine in a rather much less volatile way. Reminds me of how chai spice black tea tastes. The nicotine rush sticks with me for about an hour, after that i didn't smoke at all yesterday.
My research lead me to many conclusions about this stuff. This is meant to be the swedish style of chewing tobacco in america. Camel is a swedish company anyway, but as to whether camel products are american or not is up for date based on their distributors in america. Swedish snus is of higher quality and prepared better than american equivalents like skoal or copenhagen. Camel snus is still in the middle of being trial tested in random parts of america since 2008. Many have claimed that this is being marketed directly to children (these have also been the same people who assume that because its also called chew users literally chew tobacco). It's obvious something else is going on especially with the trial testing. Camel and other brands are currently competing in america for the spitless snus arena. Camel for example has been experimenting by providing different flavors at different times in different locations, to find out which ones customers like the best and will buy.
Then again, camel and so on has had cryptic advertisements like "spitless snus, use it in class, use it in a car, use it in a plane" (i'm sure the using it in class part may enthuse some highschoolers to get a hold of the stuff). I don't really care that this or other tobacco companies may or may not have child advertisement campaigns. For me, this'll keep me from putting bull**** in my lungs and regain precious lung capacity. I mainly need to get out the habit of smoking period.
It's really sort of evil, but from my perspective i had a blast. I was always smoking with friends having a jolly good time (this makes not smoking really hard). So far i just toss in a pouch around them, and i'm good. Better taste especially too. I have a feeling i'll be able to quit chew. I just literally need to get myself out of the fun habits associated with the actions of smoking (i'm split on smoking for being social and for nicotine). If i can't quit chew, then there's better safer stuff out there anyway. One interesting thing was tobaccoless chew. Just pouches of pretty much what the contents of a certain kind of teabag would have except enriched with nicotine.
