Swedish Match Sees 2012 Snuff/Snus Growth

(Bloomberg) ... Swedish Match expects both the Scandinavian snus market and the U.S. market for moist snuff to continue to grow in volume terms this year, the seller of Red Man and Timber Wolf chewing tobacco said in the statement.
Snus is finely ground tobacco that doesn’t require spitting, unlike traditional smokeless tobacco. Traditional snuff is more popular in the U.S., and the market there is five times larger than the Scandinavian market for snus, according to the company. Continued