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Sun-cured, highly aromatic and small of leaf — you might better know this variety by its common name, Turkish tobacco. The perfect blend of quality and consistency Tobacco blending is a skillful process that starts with buying and combining exactly the right mix of grades — getting that right is the only way to achieve the particular taste and quality our cigarette brands are known for. Discover more. Rolling tobacco Fine-cut tobacco packed in loose-form in pouches is known as rolling tobacco.
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Old Holborn Tobacco Old Holborn, one of the top brands in the UK and a market leader in Greece, is renowned for its distinctive Virginia tobacco taste. The LS-mean unprotonated nicotine concentration of NE portion 7. Concentrations of minor alkaloids varied most among products with the highest total nicotine levels.
The most abundant flavor compounds detected were pulegone, eucalyptol, and menthol. Our findings could inform public health and policy decisions pertaining to snus exposure and potential adverse health effects associated with snus. This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
Data Availability: All relevant data are within the manuscript and its Supporting Information files. Snus is a finely ground oral smokeless tobacco product that initially consisted of air-cured tobacco, salt, and water.
The manufacturing of snus in Sweden was first mentioned in the early s [ 1 ]. Over time, ingredients like humectants, alkaline agents e. Snus was first introduced in the United States US in the s and was the precursor to the most common form of smokeless tobacco, moist snuff, an unpasteurized product that contains fire-cured and fermented tobacco [ 1 , 3 ]. Moreover, Norway is not a part of the EU and loose snus is sold in Denmark however there is a ban on portion snus [ 4 ].
Since , several snus products, including Camel, Marlboro, Triumph, and Skoal Snus, have been test marketed or released in the US market. These products are primarily sold in a pre-portioned pouch format and offered in mint and wintergreen flavors. In Sweden, snus is regulated under the Swedish Food Act and is available in a wide array of flavors licorice, lemon, cinnamon, clove, cherry, and mint.
These portion size pouches, can be further divided into two categories: white and regular original. The original portion pouch product is visually moist and brown because it undergoes an additional moisturizing process during manufacturing.
For clarification, the terms portion and pouch are often used interchangeably. However, in this study for clarity these products are referred to as portion. In addition to portion snus, some NE snus products are available as loose tobacco. Tobacco-specific nitrosamines [TSNAs] are of public health significance because these compounds are among the most abundant and potent carcinogens in tobacco products [ 3 ].
Because microorganisms are capable of producing nitrite, which contributes to TSNA formation, the production of snus often incorporates heat treatment pasteurization to kill microorganisms [ 6 — 8 ]. Because of its lowered TSNA levels, snus is often perceived as a less harmful form of tobacco when compared with cigarette smoking [ 13 — 14 ].
However, further investigation into potential lifetime nicotine dependence and other health risks [ 15 — 17 ] associated with the use of snus is warranted to inform tobacco policies and effective public health messages about these products. At present, it is not known if the chemical composition of snus products made in these countries is similar.
This study was designed to generate data enabling comparisons of snus with other tobacco products, and to determine whether US and NE snus products differ chemically. Study results may provide valuable information to snus consumers, clinicians, tobacco regulators, and policymakers. Upon receipt, smokeless samples were logged into a custom database, assigned barcodes with a unique ID, and stored at— 70 o C until analyzed.
Total moisture content was measured using a methodology described elsewhere [ 12 ]. The pH values were determined in a 1-g sample of each product in a mL aliquot of distilled, deionized water using a Sirius Vinotrate pH meter Sirius Analytical Ltd. Measurements for pH at 5-, , , and min intervals were averaged. The pH protocol used is fully described elsewhere [ 12 ]. Averages of duplicate measures for moisture and pH measurements are reported. Total nicotine concentrations were measured using a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry GC-MS method as described previously [ 18 ].
Snus samples were weighed to approximately 0. Samples were then extracted with 10 mL of aqueous ammonium acetate buffer, shaken for one hour at rpm, and filtered with a 0.
The analytical methodology is reported elsewhere [ 20 ]. In order to represent the correlation among the repeated measurements, mixed effects models were configured with random effects indicating snus product nested within manufacturer and region, manufacturer nested within region, as well as random intercepts. Because measurement distributions were not entirely compatible with assumptions underlying calculation of means and standard errors, the least-square statistics were derived from analyses of 10, bootstrap resamples of the data, stratified by region, manufacturer, and snus product.
Tabulated means, standard errors, and differences are bootstrapped least-square LS estimates from these mixed effects models Tables 1 and 2. Mixed effects models were not applied to statistics displayed in Figures, nor statistics reported for alkaloids and flavors. All eight US snus products investigated in this study were tobacco portion style.
The average weight per portion for both regions was approximately 0. The portion weight or size refers to the mass of tobacco and portion material per serving. On average, US portion snus ranged from 0. Among all analytes, measurements encompassed broad ranges: moisture, The total nicotine concentrations of 16 of 56 NE snus products were higher range Unprotonated nicotine concentrations, calculated using pH and total nicotine concentrations, varied widely among all products, ranging from 0.
In Table 1 —Comparison A, unprotonated nicotine concentrations were significantly higher among NE portion standard snus compared to US portion standard snus 5. In Table 1 —Comparison B, there were no detectable differences in moisture, pH, and nicotine concentrations between NE white and original portion categories.
Among NE portion snus, 43 of the 49 portion products had higher LS-mean unprotonated nicotine levels than US portion snus.
The LS-mean unprotonated nicotine levels of all 7 NE loose snus products varied more than 3-fold across brands. Moreover, among NE portion and NE loose snus categories there were statistically significant differences in the LS-mean moisture There is a wide range of total and unprotonated nicotine levels wet wt. A summary of all 64 snus products by manufacture and brand family is provided in the S1 Table.
The highest arithmetic mean total nicotine concentrations were found in the British American Tobacco Odens brand family In terms of unprotonated nicotine, the same Thunder products described above had the highest arithmetic mean unprotonated nicotine concentration Lastly, the lowest arithmetic unprotonated nicotine levels were found in two US brand families, Skoal 0.
Arithmetic means of total and unprotonated nicotine found in twenty-five snus brand families made by ten manufacturers in Europe [A-G] and the US [H-J] varied widely among all products. However, US snus had lower unprotonated nicotine compared to NE snus. Tobacco Company. Arithmetic means and standard errors are estimates from 10, bootstrap resamples of the data.
Error bars represent bootstrapped standard errors. The Skoal brand family 1. Smokeless Tobacco and V2 Tobacco Thunder brand family 1.
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