What are highly-reduced-risk nicotine products?
The most popular highly-reduced-risk nicotine product is smokeless tobacco, specifically modern Western moist snuff (the Swedish word for which is snus) and chewing tobacco. The other class of products is pharmaceutical nicotine products (such as nicotine gums, lozenges, patches, and inhalers). Someone who uses one of these products rather than smoking reduces the risks by about 99%. TobaccoHarmReduction.org focuses on certain moist snuff products from the United States and Scandinavia (particularly Sweden) because we think they have the most potential as substitutes for smoking, for reasons that we explain later in the FAQ. But if you are a smoker and switch to any of these products, the benefits are almost as good as the benefits from quitting entirely.
