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I prefer the meatsauce , especially if I've made it myself 
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I have started grinding my Dark Air Cured tobacco leaves and its kinda pretty hard work , but I just grind a few leaves and then leaving for while , I'm not in any hurry.
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Monday
Västergöks Wallenbergare with creamy gravy, green peas, mashed potatoes & lingonberries (G, L,)
Fried fresh salmon fillet with homemade hollandaise sauce, green peas & boiled potatoes (L, G, Ä)
Salad with fried eggs & crispy bacon, cucumber mayo on the side ( G, Ä)
Today's vegetarian: Vegetarian Wallenberg
Tuesday
Fried pork with rag donuts & lingonberries (L, G, Ä)
Skåne calops with boiled potatoes & beets
Salad with creamy tuna scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, black olives & red onions (G, Ä)
Today's vegetarian: Rag donuts with fried stews, fried apples & onions (L, G, Ä)
Wednesday
Pork tenderloin medallions Black & White with fried shredded potatoes (Ä, G)
Oven-poached fresh cod fillet with roasted parsnips, boiled potatoes & lemon
butter sauce (L) Caesar salad with chicken & bacon (bread croutons, cocktail tomato, parmesan) on the side (G, Ä, L)
Today's vegetarian: Falafel steak with fried shredded potatoes, béarnaise sauce & sky sauce (Ä)
Thursday
Bacon-wrapped chicken fillet with chanterelle sauce, ratatouille & fried potatoes (L)
Cheese-filled teddy bear sausage with mashed potatoes, pickled red onion, roasted onion & cucumber mayo (Ä, L)
Salad with shrimp & avocado / chili puree. Tomato salsa on the side (A, G)
Day vegetarian: Ostfylld vegetarian sausage with pickled onions and potatoes (L)
F redag
schnitzel with Gorgonzola, baked tomato, hot sausage and potato (L, A, G)
Hemrökt mackerel with dill potatoes & diced beets (L)
Creamy potato salad with smoked ham, semi-dried tomato, blue cheese dressing on the side (G, Ä)
Today's vegetarian: Vegetarian schnitzel
Pasta of the week: Chicken, mushrooms, red onion in cheese sauce (L, G)
(L) contains lactose
(G) contains gluten
(Ä) contains eggs
(*) available in accessories
(N) contains nuts
Lunch for takeaway 75: - incl salad / raw food. Lunch buffet SEK 95 incl. Butter, bread, salad buffet, drinks, coffee & cake.
Restaurant Västergök
Meny for this week at Västergöken , today is wednesday so I'll go there and enjoy the Pork Tenderloin yummy this is a lunchrestaurant
Västergöks Wallenbergare with creamy gravy, green peas, mashed potatoes & lingonberries (G, L,)
Fried fresh salmon fillet with homemade hollandaise sauce, green peas & boiled potatoes (L, G, Ä)
Salad with fried eggs & crispy bacon, cucumber mayo on the side ( G, Ä)
Today's vegetarian: Vegetarian Wallenberg
Tuesday
Fried pork with rag donuts & lingonberries (L, G, Ä)
Skåne calops with boiled potatoes & beets
Salad with creamy tuna scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, black olives & red onions (G, Ä)
Today's vegetarian: Rag donuts with fried stews, fried apples & onions (L, G, Ä)
Wednesday
Pork tenderloin medallions Black & White with fried shredded potatoes (Ä, G)
Oven-poached fresh cod fillet with roasted parsnips, boiled potatoes & lemon
butter sauce (L) Caesar salad with chicken & bacon (bread croutons, cocktail tomato, parmesan) on the side (G, Ä, L)
Today's vegetarian: Falafel steak with fried shredded potatoes, béarnaise sauce & sky sauce (Ä)
Thursday
Bacon-wrapped chicken fillet with chanterelle sauce, ratatouille & fried potatoes (L)
Cheese-filled teddy bear sausage with mashed potatoes, pickled red onion, roasted onion & cucumber mayo (Ä, L)
Salad with shrimp & avocado / chili puree. Tomato salsa on the side (A, G)
Day vegetarian: Ostfylld vegetarian sausage with pickled onions and potatoes (L)
F redag
schnitzel with Gorgonzola, baked tomato, hot sausage and potato (L, A, G)
Hemrökt mackerel with dill potatoes & diced beets (L)
Creamy potato salad with smoked ham, semi-dried tomato, blue cheese dressing on the side (G, Ä)
Today's vegetarian: Vegetarian schnitzel
Pasta of the week: Chicken, mushrooms, red onion in cheese sauce (L, G)
(L) contains lactose
(G) contains gluten
(Ä) contains eggs
(*) available in accessories
(N) contains nuts
Lunch for takeaway 75: - incl salad / raw food. Lunch buffet SEK 95 incl. Butter, bread, salad buffet, drinks, coffee & cake.
Restaurant Västergök
Meny for this week at Västergöken , today is wednesday so I'll go there and enjoy the Pork Tenderloin yummy
this is a lunchrestaurant
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After the large companies' interim reports: "These are not corona crisis companies"
UPDATED TODAY 10:22PUBLISHED TODAY 09:41
Several large Swedish companies, including the telecom companies Ericsson and Telia, submitted their interim reports for the third quarter of the year on Wednesday morning.
- The two companies surprise, especially Ericsson, says SVT's financial reporter Kristina Lagerström in Morgonstudion.
Ericsson's profit landed at SEK 8.6 billion for the quarter, as much as SEK 2.2 billion more than the market had expected.
- They have a very good profit margin, and the operating margins - ie how much you earn in operating profit on your sales - have increased a lot. It is better than ever at 2006, so this is an incredibly good result from Ericsson, says Kristina Lagerström.
Extra dividend
- None of the companies have been terribly hard hit by corona. Telia will now also make an extra dividend after they reduced the share dividend this spring. These are not corona crisis companies, Kristina Lagerström concludes.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/ekonomi/svt-s-ekonomikommentator-de-har-ar-inte-coronakris-bolag
UPDATED TODAY 10:22PUBLISHED TODAY 09:41
Several large Swedish companies, including the telecom companies Ericsson and Telia, submitted their interim reports for the third quarter of the year on Wednesday morning.
- The two companies surprise, especially Ericsson, says SVT's financial reporter Kristina Lagerström in Morgonstudion.
Ericsson's profit landed at SEK 8.6 billion for the quarter, as much as SEK 2.2 billion more than the market had expected.
- They have a very good profit margin, and the operating margins - ie how much you earn in operating profit on your sales - have increased a lot. It is better than ever at 2006, so this is an incredibly good result from Ericsson, says Kristina Lagerström.
Extra dividend
- None of the companies have been terribly hard hit by corona. Telia will now also make an extra dividend after they reduced the share dividend this spring. These are not corona crisis companies, Kristina Lagerström concludes.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/ekonomi/svt-s-ekonomikommentator-de-har-ar-inte-coronakris-bolag
POGreen
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Pork Tenderloin with fried Black&white and shredded potatoes now its time to take a nap for 2-3 hours in the sofa.
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SVT's meteorologist Marcus Sjöstedt about the storm in Vietnam. Photo: SVT / TT
After rainstorms and landslides - now tropical hurricane threatens Vietnam
UPDATED TODAY 14:55PUBLISHED TODAY 14:54
Vietnam has been hit by heavy rainfall which has led to floods in the country. Now storm Saudel is also expected to move towards Vietnam during the weekend.
- This can worsen the situation further, says Marcus Sjöstedt, meteorologist.
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Corojo
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Inside Cuba
The Death of El Corojo
Cuba's premier wrapper tobacco has been sent to its grave
By James Suckling | From Bo Derek, Jul/Aug 00
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No tears were shed in Cuba when the last seeds of El Corojo were planted in the rich red soils of the Vuelta Abajo, Cuba's premier tobacco-growing region. Cuban tobacco experts don't seem 100 percent sure when it happened, probably about 1997 or so, but what can be safely said today is that El Corojo is dead. That is something to lament.
I can't help thinking about the now extinct wrapper tobacco every time I smoke one of my beautiful well-aged Cuban cigars. I often feel nostalgic and sad when I gaze upon the dark brown wrapper. It satisfies my eyes and titillates my palate. Many cigarmakers say that a wrapper contributes very little to the overall quality of a cigar since it only accounts for 5 to 8 percent of the bulk of a smoke. But I disagree. It's like saying a gorgeous designer dress doesn't add to the attraction of a beautifully figured woman. Just take the wrapper off a cigar and smoke it and you know immediately that it does have an effect: the wrapperless cigar just doesn't taste as good.
First developed in the 1930s at the El Corojo plantation outside San Juan y Martinez, Cuba, El Corojo had served as the wrapper for some of the greatest cigars ever made on the island: from the aristocratic Por Larrañaga Magnum to the ritzy Cohiba Esplendido. It was the first thing to catch the eye of keen cigar smokers, from Fidel Castro and John F. Kennedy to you and me. Its oily, silky grain look was irresistible. El Corojo makes a cigar look so rich and beautiful that it makes you want to smoke it.
But that's over now. At least that's what José Redonet of the Tobacco Research Center says. This past February, during the final week of the tobacco harvest, I visited Redonet and a few of his colleagues in San Juan y Martinez, the Cuban town in which the largest percentage of premium wrapper tobacco is grown. Redonet coldly explained that El Corojo was too susceptible to diseases such as black shank, a root fungus that causes the tobacco stalk to wither and the leaves to droop, and blue mold, so growers could no longer risk using the tobacco. "If a grower planted El Corojo today, there's a very good chance that he would end up with little or no tobacco at the end of the harvest," Redonet said, as he walked through hundreds of rows of Habanos 2000 wrapper tobacco growing under cheesecloth netting.
Redonet said that most tobacco growers now opt for such alternatives as Habanos 2000, Criollo 98 and 99, and Corojo 99. These are all hybrids of El Corojo, meaning they have been crossbred with the original and then other tobacco types to make them more resistant to diseases. Apparently, the leaves from the hybrids are also larger, with a better, longer shape for making cigars. In addition, Redonet suggested that the new tobacco could be processed more quickly than El Corojo, making the wrapper available for cigar rolling a few months earlier than in the past. This is important, since the Cubans have been in a bit of a bind recently due to a shortage of large wrapper leaves. They even have had to close some of their more prestigious cigar factories or reduce their output.
However, I still had some concerns: How are these new tobacco types going to influence the way Cuban cigars taste? Is that rich, spicy, cedar aroma from a great Habano going to be a thing of the past? The officials at the research center certainly didn't think so. I posed the question to a group of them as we lunched on black beans and rice and some hunks of greasy roasted pork. They all agreed with Redonet. "I am sure that there is no difference organoleptically with these tobacco types and El Corojo," Redonet said reassuringly. "The experts have smoked the new tobacco types and they say there is no difference."
Strangely, after lunch I noticed that no one was smoking. So I offered them each a robusto-sized Partagas Serie D No. 4. There were no takers. I was shocked when I found out that none of them smoked. "You guys are like a great chef who doesn't eat his own food or a winemaker who only drinks water. How can you say that Habana 2000 or Corojo 99 is no different than El Corojo?" I asked. They thought this was very funny. But I wasn't joking.
Maybe it's my imagination, but I think that today's Cuban cigars taste different from my older cigars, although the quality of today's Cuban cigars appears to be better. A few years ago, you could find one box of super quality smokes but five or six that were complete crap. After visiting reputable tobacco dealers in London, Geneva, Milan, Bordeaux, Havana, Munich, Cancun and Paris, I can safely say that I haven't seen the smokes look this good in years. However, when I smoke these new cigars, they don't seem to have the intense spicy, earthy tobacco character that I have come to love and expect from a Cuban smoke. They are damned good smokes, but they seem more mild with a little less character. When I compare my current Habanos to those with four or five years of age in my humidor, I find the older ones much more powerful and exciting. Maybe it's a question of age, but I have my doubts.
The prehybrid smokes could one day be likened to the pre-phylloxera wines of Europe that have a legendary reputation among great wine collectors. These are wines that were made primarily before 1880 from old, gnarly vines whose roots were anchored deep in the soil to extract an amazing amount of nutrients. They produced concentrated wine grapes with character. Unfortunately, they had not been grafted or spliced to American rootstock to protect them from the ravenous root louse that destroyed most of Europe's vineyards during the latter part of the nineteenth century. On a number of occasions I have tasted such pre-phylloxera wines as 1865 Lafite, 1870 Latour and recently 1863 Latour and 1870 Climens, and the character and concentration they still deliver are out of this world.
I now find myself buying more and more cigars with three or four years of box age, thinking that these may be the last Cuban smokes of an era. Maybe the new cigars with their hybrid wrappers are better. Only time will tell. But they don't have the style of El Corojo wrappers--those irresistible, velvety textured, opened-grain oily ones grown in the heart of the Vuelta Abajo.
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The Death of El Corojo
Cuba's premier wrapper tobacco has been sent to its grave
By James Suckling | From Bo Derek, Jul/Aug 00
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No tears were shed in Cuba when the last seeds of El Corojo were planted in the rich red soils of the Vuelta Abajo, Cuba's premier tobacco-growing region. Cuban tobacco experts don't seem 100 percent sure when it happened, probably about 1997 or so, but what can be safely said today is that El Corojo is dead. That is something to lament.
I can't help thinking about the now extinct wrapper tobacco every time I smoke one of my beautiful well-aged Cuban cigars. I often feel nostalgic and sad when I gaze upon the dark brown wrapper. It satisfies my eyes and titillates my palate. Many cigarmakers say that a wrapper contributes very little to the overall quality of a cigar since it only accounts for 5 to 8 percent of the bulk of a smoke. But I disagree. It's like saying a gorgeous designer dress doesn't add to the attraction of a beautifully figured woman. Just take the wrapper off a cigar and smoke it and you know immediately that it does have an effect: the wrapperless cigar just doesn't taste as good.
First developed in the 1930s at the El Corojo plantation outside San Juan y Martinez, Cuba, El Corojo had served as the wrapper for some of the greatest cigars ever made on the island: from the aristocratic Por Larrañaga Magnum to the ritzy Cohiba Esplendido. It was the first thing to catch the eye of keen cigar smokers, from Fidel Castro and John F. Kennedy to you and me. Its oily, silky grain look was irresistible. El Corojo makes a cigar look so rich and beautiful that it makes you want to smoke it.
But that's over now. At least that's what José Redonet of the Tobacco Research Center says. This past February, during the final week of the tobacco harvest, I visited Redonet and a few of his colleagues in San Juan y Martinez, the Cuban town in which the largest percentage of premium wrapper tobacco is grown. Redonet coldly explained that El Corojo was too susceptible to diseases such as black shank, a root fungus that causes the tobacco stalk to wither and the leaves to droop, and blue mold, so growers could no longer risk using the tobacco. "If a grower planted El Corojo today, there's a very good chance that he would end up with little or no tobacco at the end of the harvest," Redonet said, as he walked through hundreds of rows of Habanos 2000 wrapper tobacco growing under cheesecloth netting.
Redonet said that most tobacco growers now opt for such alternatives as Habanos 2000, Criollo 98 and 99, and Corojo 99. These are all hybrids of El Corojo, meaning they have been crossbred with the original and then other tobacco types to make them more resistant to diseases. Apparently, the leaves from the hybrids are also larger, with a better, longer shape for making cigars. In addition, Redonet suggested that the new tobacco could be processed more quickly than El Corojo, making the wrapper available for cigar rolling a few months earlier than in the past. This is important, since the Cubans have been in a bit of a bind recently due to a shortage of large wrapper leaves. They even have had to close some of their more prestigious cigar factories or reduce their output.
However, I still had some concerns: How are these new tobacco types going to influence the way Cuban cigars taste? Is that rich, spicy, cedar aroma from a great Habano going to be a thing of the past? The officials at the research center certainly didn't think so. I posed the question to a group of them as we lunched on black beans and rice and some hunks of greasy roasted pork. They all agreed with Redonet. "I am sure that there is no difference organoleptically with these tobacco types and El Corojo," Redonet said reassuringly. "The experts have smoked the new tobacco types and they say there is no difference."
Strangely, after lunch I noticed that no one was smoking. So I offered them each a robusto-sized Partagas Serie D No. 4. There were no takers. I was shocked when I found out that none of them smoked. "You guys are like a great chef who doesn't eat his own food or a winemaker who only drinks water. How can you say that Habana 2000 or Corojo 99 is no different than El Corojo?" I asked. They thought this was very funny. But I wasn't joking.
Maybe it's my imagination, but I think that today's Cuban cigars taste different from my older cigars, although the quality of today's Cuban cigars appears to be better. A few years ago, you could find one box of super quality smokes but five or six that were complete crap. After visiting reputable tobacco dealers in London, Geneva, Milan, Bordeaux, Havana, Munich, Cancun and Paris, I can safely say that I haven't seen the smokes look this good in years. However, when I smoke these new cigars, they don't seem to have the intense spicy, earthy tobacco character that I have come to love and expect from a Cuban smoke. They are damned good smokes, but they seem more mild with a little less character. When I compare my current Habanos to those with four or five years of age in my humidor, I find the older ones much more powerful and exciting. Maybe it's a question of age, but I have my doubts.
The prehybrid smokes could one day be likened to the pre-phylloxera wines of Europe that have a legendary reputation among great wine collectors. These are wines that were made primarily before 1880 from old, gnarly vines whose roots were anchored deep in the soil to extract an amazing amount of nutrients. They produced concentrated wine grapes with character. Unfortunately, they had not been grafted or spliced to American rootstock to protect them from the ravenous root louse that destroyed most of Europe's vineyards during the latter part of the nineteenth century. On a number of occasions I have tasted such pre-phylloxera wines as 1865 Lafite, 1870 Latour and recently 1863 Latour and 1870 Climens, and the character and concentration they still deliver are out of this world.
I now find myself buying more and more cigars with three or four years of box age, thinking that these may be the last Cuban smokes of an era. Maybe the new cigars with their hybrid wrappers are better. Only time will tell. But they don't have the style of El Corojo wrappers--those irresistible, velvety textured, opened-grain oily ones grown in the heart of the Vuelta Abajo.
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To me it seems complicated to air and flue cure the leaves compared to stalk hung or stalkstanding.
I have no where place to hang the plants so I have to have them standing.
I don't know if I can find a place to grow a 100 plants but I hope I will.
I have no where place to hang the plants so I have to have them standing.
I don't know if I can find a place to grow a 100 plants but I hope I will.
You can fit 100 full-size tobacco plants into an area 6m x 6m (~20' x 20'), not allowing for aisles in between.
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Especially if they are Perique , I guess.
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I have joined Operation Smile to help children who has problems with jaw cleft palate .
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Cultivation lots
Are you eager to grow your own berries and vegetables but feel that you do not have the opportunity as your accommodation limits you? Whether you live in a house or an apartment, you can enjoy home-grown fruit and vegetables if you rent a plot of land near you.
If you are interested in renting a cultivation plot, we advise you to take a bike ride around to the different cultivation plot areas to see if any area appeals to you.
Directions, general information and contact person for the lots can be found under each cultivation area.
Halmstad's cultivation plot areas:
The lots are around 100 square meters, but it can vary slightly from association to association. The rent can vary, but is usually relatively low. Water is included in the rent and in some cultivation areas there is water drawn to the cultivation plots.
Cultivation lots have existed in Sweden for a long time and from the beginning the purpose was to give city dwellers with apartment accommodation an opportunity to get out to their own little garden. At that time, own cultivation plots were a way to keep food costs down.
Last updated January 4, 2019
Are you eager to grow your own berries and vegetables but feel that you do not have the opportunity as your accommodation limits you? Whether you live in a house or an apartment, you can enjoy home-grown fruit and vegetables if you rent a plot of land near you.
If you are interested in renting a cultivation plot, we advise you to take a bike ride around to the different cultivation plot areas to see if any area appeals to you.
Directions, general information and contact person for the lots can be found under each cultivation area.
Halmstad's cultivation plot areas:
- Andersbergs Fritidsodling
- Eketånga Fritidsodling
- Frennarps Odlarförening
- Fyllinge Odlarförening
- Koloniföreningen Grönsakslandet
- Mickedala Odlingsförening
- Norra Utmarkens Fritidsodling
- Prästgårdens Fritidsodlarförening
- Vallås Fritidsodling
The lots are around 100 square meters, but it can vary slightly from association to association. The rent can vary, but is usually relatively low. Water is included in the rent and in some cultivation areas there is water drawn to the cultivation plots.
Cultivation lots have existed in Sweden for a long time and from the beginning the purpose was to give city dwellers with apartment accommodation an opportunity to get out to their own little garden. At that time, own cultivation plots were a way to keep food costs down.
Last updated January 4, 2019
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All About Snus
Introduction The history of snus
Snus is a tobacco mixture that is placed under the upper lip, after which nicotine is released by the saliva and absorbed into the body via the mucous membranes. Today's wet snus consists of finely ground tobacco that has been treated with saline solution and sodium carbonate and then either fermented or pasteurized in heating processes. Then aromas and flavors are added. There are also both tobacco-free and nicotine-free varieties of snus and all of these come in a plethora of different formats, strengths and flavors.
Although snus has had the greatest impact in Sweden, the product is also found in many other countries. Norway, the United States, Russia, Denmark and Finland are some of them. In large parts of Asia, similar oral tobacco is also popular, and there the number of users is in the hundreds of millions of people. Snus is used today by over 1 million Swedes and the Swedish average snus user consumes about 4 cans / week.
Content
The long and complicated history of snus dates back to 2000 BC. to the present. A 4000 year long snus journey that begins in Central America.
The history of tobacco in the old world
People have been using tobacco for a long time, long before our era. Traces of tobacco plantations have been found in Peru and Central America that are believed to be as much as 8,000 years old. Tobacco began to be smoked in a pipe around the year 2,000 BC. It was mainly Indians who smoked pipes and then as a symbol of peace and at religious ceremonies.
The first Europeans came into contact with tobacco as late as 1492, when Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas. Here he was met by Arawak Indians who smoked dried and finely chopped tobacco wrapped in corn leaves or straws of e.g. reeds or sugar cane.
Before returning home, Columbus and his crew received tobacco as a gift. However, no one in the crew knew what to do with the tobacco leaves and threw them overboard.
Tobacco is coming to Europe
In the 1560s, tobacco eventually spread to Europe. Columbus' successors who went to the newly discovered continent robbed a variety of goods home, including tobacco.
A cartoon image of Christopher Columbus
One of the first to start growing tobacco in Europe was the French Ambassador Jean Nicot. At this time, tobacco was seen as a medicinal plant, and when the French queen Catherine of Medici suffered from migraines, Nicot let her try sniffing tobacco to counteract it. Sniffing tobacco, so-called snuff, soon became a fashion in the French court. The courage then spread to other courts and then to the rest of the population. When Nicot became so strongly associated with tobacco, the plant was named after him, the scientific name of the plant became nicotiana.
Famous scent sniffers in history
Benedict XIII, Napoleon & Charlotte by Mecklenburg-Strelitz
The arrival of tobacco in Sweden
Tobacco reached Sweden in 1601 and quickly became a major import item with high duties and taxes. Sweden also became one of the first countries to introduce a tobacco monopoly. In 1641, Söderkompaniet gained a monopoly on the import of tobacco leaves and tobacco products.
To reduce imports, they began to grow more and more in Sweden. Especially after 1721 when the king called on all cities to set aside land for tobacco growing. In the middle of the 18th century, the tobacco industry was one of the most important in Sweden.
In 1915, Swedish tobacco was nationalized and a new tobacco monopoly with the exclusive right to sell and manufacture was established. However, the import and sales monopoly was abolished in 1961, and the manufacturing monopoly in 1967.
Introduction The history of snus
Snus is a tobacco mixture that is placed under the upper lip, after which nicotine is released by the saliva and absorbed into the body via the mucous membranes. Today's wet snus consists of finely ground tobacco that has been treated with saline solution and sodium carbonate and then either fermented or pasteurized in heating processes. Then aromas and flavors are added. There are also both tobacco-free and nicotine-free varieties of snus and all of these come in a plethora of different formats, strengths and flavors.
Although snus has had the greatest impact in Sweden, the product is also found in many other countries. Norway, the United States, Russia, Denmark and Finland are some of them. In large parts of Asia, similar oral tobacco is also popular, and there the number of users is in the hundreds of millions of people. Snus is used today by over 1 million Swedes and the Swedish average snus user consumes about 4 cans / week.
Content
- 1. The History of Snus
- 2. Tobacco in Sweden
- 4. Snus format
- 5. Sizes & Variants
- 6. Strengths & Nicotine
- 7. Snus in Sweden
- 8. Snus in the world
- 9. Snus on the go
- 10. Manufacturers & Brands
- 11. Historical Manufacturers & Brands
- 11. Snus accessories
- 12. Make your own snus
- 13. Historical years
- 14. Snus habits
- 16. Laws & Taxes
- 17. Snus & Health
- 18. Media & Controversy
- 19. Stop using nicotine
- 20. The future of snus
- 21. Current news
- 23. References
The long and complicated history of snus dates back to 2000 BC. to the present. A 4000 year long snus journey that begins in Central America.
The history of tobacco in the old world
People have been using tobacco for a long time, long before our era. Traces of tobacco plantations have been found in Peru and Central America that are believed to be as much as 8,000 years old. Tobacco began to be smoked in a pipe around the year 2,000 BC. It was mainly Indians who smoked pipes and then as a symbol of peace and at religious ceremonies.
The first Europeans came into contact with tobacco as late as 1492, when Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas. Here he was met by Arawak Indians who smoked dried and finely chopped tobacco wrapped in corn leaves or straws of e.g. reeds or sugar cane.
Before returning home, Columbus and his crew received tobacco as a gift. However, no one in the crew knew what to do with the tobacco leaves and threw them overboard.
Tobacco is coming to Europe
In the 1560s, tobacco eventually spread to Europe. Columbus' successors who went to the newly discovered continent robbed a variety of goods home, including tobacco.
A cartoon image of Christopher Columbus
One of the first to start growing tobacco in Europe was the French Ambassador Jean Nicot. At this time, tobacco was seen as a medicinal plant, and when the French queen Catherine of Medici suffered from migraines, Nicot let her try sniffing tobacco to counteract it. Sniffing tobacco, so-called snuff, soon became a fashion in the French court. The courage then spread to other courts and then to the rest of the population. When Nicot became so strongly associated with tobacco, the plant was named after him, the scientific name of the plant became nicotiana.
Famous scent sniffers in history
- Pope Benedict XIII
- Napoleon
- Britain's Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Benedict XIII, Napoleon & Charlotte by Mecklenburg-Strelitz
The arrival of tobacco in Sweden
Tobacco reached Sweden in 1601 and quickly became a major import item with high duties and taxes. Sweden also became one of the first countries to introduce a tobacco monopoly. In 1641, Söderkompaniet gained a monopoly on the import of tobacco leaves and tobacco products.
To reduce imports, they began to grow more and more in Sweden. Especially after 1721 when the king called on all cities to set aside land for tobacco growing. In the middle of the 18th century, the tobacco industry was one of the most important in Sweden.
In 1915, Swedish tobacco was nationalized and a new tobacco monopoly with the exclusive right to sell and manufacture was established. However, the import and sales monopoly was abolished in 1961, and the manufacturing monopoly in 1967.
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Photo: TTIllegal snus factory in Gothenburg revealed
UPDATED AUGUST 28, 2018PUBLISHED AUGUST 28, 2018
After a major crackdown on illegal snus production in Gothenburg, three people are arrested and detained. They are suspected of serious tax offenses, but deny any wrongdoing in the initial interrogations, the Economic Crimes Authority announced, which raided several premises in the Gothenburg area on Tuesday.
The illegal snus production has been going on in 2017–2018, according to the authority. A large seizure of suspected untaxed tobacco has also been made.
“We suspect that the business has turned over multi-million sums in lost tax revenue. In addition, we suspect that most of the workers in the factory have been paid black, "says Daniel Larson, chamber prosecutor at the Economic Crimes Authority in Gothenburg, in a press release.
According to the suspected criminal scheme, only a small part of the actual production was reported to the Swedish Tax Agency, with the aim of withholding from the state the excise tax for tobacco that must be paid for all professional production of snus.
Several months of mapping
The action took place after a few months of mapping and in collaboration with, among others, the Police Authority and the Swedish Tax Agency.
- We suspect that the business has turned over multi-million sums in lost tax revenue. In addition, we suspect that most workers in the factory have been paid black, says Daniel Larson, chamber prosecutor at the Economic Crimes Authority in Gothenburg.
The majority of snus production is believed to have taken place at a small factory in an industrial area in Gothenburg.
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Grinding Dark Air Cured Tobacco by hand and its all good.
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POGreen
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Almost there
POGreen
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Havana Gold
POGreen
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I've finished my grinding and I am now in the owen at 257 F and at 1 .5 liters of water 3.5 pounds all in all totally for the hole batch.
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POGreen
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It should be 6 liters or 1.6 gallons of water and 7.5 weight in kilos or 16.8 pounds
and 7.5 weight in kilos or 16.8 pounds- Status
