The Swedish experience and headache of tobacco harm-reduction
Swedes predominantly use snuff instead of cigarettes
13 September 2024 - 04:36
When news spread in the 1560s that Queen Catherine de' Medici of France was suffering chronic migraines, a man named Jean Nicot cured her. He recommended she take clay tobacco (snus/snuff) nasally. Legend has it that as the queen’s headaches began to ease it created a culture of using this plant for medicinal, spiritual and social purposes. ..
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