In connection with the popular Noliamässan in Umeå, Piteåtidningen asked a number of quick questions to the party leaders who were present. One of the questions concerned white snus. The answers show little interest in further regulating white snus. There is no support for the EU to intervene in the issue. Below are the answers that Piteåtidningen received to its short question:
Should white snus be regulated?
Amanda Lindh (MP)
– Partly. But we also want to protect that this is a national competence, so that we do not release it to the EU.
Magdalena Andersson (S)
– Above all, the EU should not decide on white snus. We should decide that in Sweden.
Nooshi Dadgostar (V)
– No, we should have the rules we have. But the EU or anyone else should not come and interfere.
Jimmie Åkesson (SD)
– No, I don't think so. We don't have any such proposals.
Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist (C)
– No, the regulation we have today is sufficient.
The Moderates do not want to regulate
Other party leaders were not present. But during the last term of office, no action has been taken to regulate white snus. However, action has been taken against other countries' restrictions. Tobacco Facts has reported that Foreign Trade Minister Benjamin Dousa has directed protests against countries that want to regulate snus. The latest example is Poland who want to introduce a taste ban.
Health Minister Elisabeth Lann (KD), who is responsible for tobacco policy, has a more cautious stance. She has repeatedly expressed concern about the development of white snus among young people and has called for restrictions on the flavors. But she did not get the majority of the Christian Democrats on that.
Liberal Party leader Simona Mohamsson, who focuses on school issues, is against limiting teachers and other school staff's ability to smoke snus in school. A government investigation has proposed nicotine-free school hours, and the Public Health Agency was positive about the proposal, and at the same time wished an investigation into nicotine freedom also among teachers and other school personnel. The Liberal Party leader Simona Mohamsson was very negative about that proposal. In an interview with Expressen, September 22, 2025, she replied:
"Sweden's most important professional group should be given more power in the classroom – not met with a moralistic snus ban.” “The teachers' work environment has deteriorated for a long time. It would be tactless to deteriorate it further”
