Dr. Lynn Kozlowski, professor and chair of health behavior in the School of Public Health at the SUNY Buffalo - one of my alma maters, keeps on remind

June 24, 2007 - Dr. Lynn Kozlowski, professor and chair of health behavior in the School of Public Health at the SUNY Buffalo - one of my alma maters, keeps on reminding us that "We should not delay in allowing SNUS to compete with cigarettes for market share. The banning or exaggerated opposition to SNUS in cigarette-rifle environments is not sound public health policy." (5/10/2007) By telling hardline smokers that SNUS is not as harmful as tobacco smoke, we are encouraging them to switch but also enticing youngsters to give it a try. By doing this they are encouraging the youth of America to go ahead and try smokeless tobacco that it's safer than smoking cigarettes. Already the use of smokeless is higher in young people than in adults. These SNUS type products are being promoted to be used anywhere, anytime, anyplace at your convenience and no one will even know. With no federal regulations the tobacco companies are free to market their new smokeless tobacco products in ways that encourage kids to start using tobacco and discourage smokers from quitting tobacco use. Our children are being threatened – if we don’t stop this push to make SNUS readily available - we’ll end up with a generation of nicotine addicts. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco has just announced an expansion of their test marketing of Camel SNUS to 5-additional cities in addition to Austin, TX and Portland, OR (see Newsbrief below -