SWEDISH CANCER DEATHS REDUCTION

Early day motion 752, tabled 29 January 2002 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 22 members.

That this House congratulates Sweden on achieving Europe's largest reduction in nicotine-related male cancer deaths through the use of a substance banned in the United Kingdom; notes that ingesting nicotine without the carcinogens produced by smoking has cut cancer deaths among Swedish males to less than half the average for the rest of Europe while the risk for females is exactly the European average; believes this is the result of the use of oral tobacco named snus by the majority of Swedish male smokers but rare among female smokers; and calls on the Government to investigate the benefits of encouraging nicotine addicts to transfer to less carcinogenic forms of nicotine and to review its ban on snus.

Signatures by party: Labour 17, Labour/Co-operative 2, Liberal Democrat 2, UUP 1.