Camel SNUS ad appeared in the What's Up Section of the Raleigh News & Observer. ..

August 3, 2007 - Camel SNUS ad appeared in the What's Up Section of the Raleigh News & Observer. Raleigh is one of the new market test sites. What do you think?? Does this ad target hard-nosed existing smokers that refused to quit tobacco smoking??? See related Newsbriefs:July 27, 2007, July 23, 2007, July 13, 2007, July 12, 2007 and July 2, 2007. Click on image to enlarge. From SNUS.biz - according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention 44.5 million US adults were current smokers in 2004. Of these about 70% (33.3 million) want to quit smoking and free themselves of all tobacco products. Most of remaining smokers are older hardline smokers that refuse to quit. Will this latter group of around 11 million smokers be the only target group that the tobacco companies try to convince to go smokeless?? NO.. In Sweden (2004) it has been found that the use of snuff decreases with age and was the highest in the age group 18-29 years (P. Nordgren, Swedish National Institutes of Public Health). The RJ Reynolds Tobacco salesperson was upset that we didn't order any more Camel SNUS. He claims SNUS is selling like hotcakes in Downtown Raleigh. Click on image to enlarge.