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In NZ the RYO competes with
the manufactured cigarette:
in Sweden, snus has this role.
RYO enables NZ smokers to afford to keep on smoking.
In Sweden, snus provides access to nicotine at low risk
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This graph shows comparisons
all based on dry weight of tobacco. The lowest graph shows that the
percentage of smoking tobacco smoked as hand rolled tobacco in Sweden has
decreased if anything since 1990.
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The two upper graphs show
considerable switching away from manufactured cigarettes – the middle
graph in pink shows that RYO tobacco is now 39% of all smoked tobacco, while
in Sweden the trend is away from cigarettes to snuff, with snuff now equal to
more than half of all smoked tobacco.
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