Has anyone seen this yet? Camel cigarettes is now marking something caled Snus, which according to Wiki looks pretty much like the old Skoal Bandits (so it’s a pouch full of dipping tobacco). Do you have to spit with these? Wiki makes it sound like no, but you don’t swallow the juice do you?!? Won’t that make you rather sick to your stomach?
What’s Snu?
Sorry, it had to be asked
If it’s anything like the Swedish Snus it’s either pouches with “magically something, something” tobacco (yeah, I don’t know the process…), or just the treated tobacco in semi-loose (and moist) form, which you put under your upper lip.
Takes a bit getting used to, but you don’t spit while you have it in.
And it’s tons better than cigarettes since it doesn’t bother anyone else (kissing excluded) and it’s not as gross as the chewing tobacco since you don’t have to be spitting all the time.
Me? I like it 
So you’re swallowing the stuff?
ETA - I do dip on occaison but the idea of swallowing the stuff gives me nightmares back to the second time I never did it and I took down a whole mouthful of Kodiak. Well, took down for around 10 seconds before bazooka barfing all over my friends parents garage.
If it’s like the Ariva product, it’s powdered, compressed tobacco that just kind of dissolves into your oral membranes. Provides nicotine, no smoke, no spitting. And you can use it on an airplane.
So we’re back to lip cancer again?
I’m an ex-smoker, I dipped skoal & copenhagen long enough to get a sore on the inside of my lower lip. It scared me enough to stop chewing tobacco & go back to cigarettes.
Tobacco is one hell of a tough addiction.
No study in Sweden (home of Snus) has ever shown it to cause cancer. They had to take away the warning about cancer and the text now reads: “This product may harm your health and is addictive.”
I kicked my smoke habit using it and don’t find anything about less useful/more harmful than patches, gum, spray or whatever.
As for what it is.
Ground tobacco, water, some salt and flavoring. There are about as many flavor of snus as there are for chweing gum, including cranberry.
What little liquid the puches contain is swallowed but it doesn’t upset my stomach more than smoking did. Mostly, the nicotine seeps through the mucous (sp?) in the mouth, the same way a patch works through the skin.
Yes, the mouth will become sore if one puts the pouch in exactly the same place and is a compulsive user. Put the pouch in different places to avaid that. My guess is that putting some kind of candy under the lip and letting it dissolve and keep putting another peice of candy there all day long, the mouth will become sore fram that.
Standard waiver: I’m not into cancer research, just going on what’s been written and said over here, where about 14 per cent of the population use the stuff. With such a large number using it, there would surely be studies linking it to cancer by now and the authorities would force the warning.
I can and have swallowed any kind of chewing tobacco including the very strong Copenhagen. I could dip all day long in high school without detection. Other guys (and a few girls) had to spit which was a problem and made a mess but I just learned to swallow it including the dip itself at the end. It brought me some notoriety and it can be done. Don’t try it until you know what you are doing however. Swallowing Copenhagen can cause anything from violent vomiting to the inability to stand up and walk. Enjoy.
Up here in the Scandanavian northwest, I’ve commonly heard people refer to any kind of chewing tobacco as “snus,” (pronounced “snoose.”) I guess it’s a regional thing.
Not much, What’s Snu with you?
At least the tumor is easier to reach
Is there enough nicotine to catch a buzz, like you can from regular chew or dip, or is it a more subtle thing? I’m thinking a tin of this stuff might be coming home with me. It’d be real nice to have at work too.
Just don’t try two at once; then it’s Death by Snus-Snus.
Camel has a website for SNUS, www.snuscamel.com
I just checked it out, myself. You have to sign up (you can use your existing Camel login if you have one) but there’s tons of info on the site. Even a video with “Inga.” 
Looks like interesting stuff. Almost like a Nicorette gum w/o the gum. I might get some for my dad so he doesn’t have to be such a crybaby about going to the stadium and not smoking for 3 hours.
snus is steam-cured instead of fire-cured helping prevent some of the nastier carcinogens. It’s a totally different beast. Not to say that it doesn’t cause cancer, but it sure is a better alternative.
I used to be a tobacco maniac. I started with Skoal, then switched to smoking, then used snus for a while when I lived in Scandinavia, then I quit about 2 months ago.
Unlike Skoal, or Skoal bandits, there is no acidic juice that you don’t want to swallow. It is very bland, as far as tobacco goes. But it does of course deliver the Nicotine, but not quite as much (by the feel of it) as does Skoal or any other typical American snuff.
I used loose snus where I was because the pre-packaged stuff was illegal in Denmark for some reason.
It’s probably the least life-threatening form of tobacco you can use, so I say go for it.
Does it taste like steak and chicken?
Not a tobacco user, but I’ll vouch for membrane irritation from hard candy. Good point.
The way I heard it is that one package of snus equals 3 regular cigarettes in nicotine content. And if you pack it yourself it’s most likely more than that.
And from personal usage, I’m pretty darned sure that is at least partially true (with the 3 part being vague).
But that’s just the way I heard it - nothing scientific to back it up.
I thought the OP hade made a typo and this thread was about camel anus.
It is.