Sunday, March 16 2008
By James Nash
The Columbus Dispatch
It might have a funny-sounding name, but snus is no laughing matter to activists who led the 2006 campaign to ban smoking from public places across Ohio.
Snus, a nugget of tobacco wrapped in a porous tissue, will be under the lips of thousands of people in central Ohio this year if product launches by three tobacco companies are successful.
The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. started selling Camel Snus in central Ohio in July. Lorillard Tobacco Co. introduced its lower-cost Triumph brand in central Ohio this year, and the Liggett Group is including Columbus among the seven cities in which it plans to test-launch its Grand Prix snus this summer.
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