Already every fourth man under the age of 40 uses nicotine bags
Intoxicants|Daily or random use of nicotine bags has doubled in working -age people.
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According to the National Institute for Health and Welfare, one in four men under the age of 40 uses nicotine bags daily or occasionally.
The use of nicotine bags of working -age nicotine has doubled from 8 % to 17 % between 2022 and 2024.
Specialist Otto Ruokolainen states that the use of the use has greatly widespread during the free sale of nicotine bags.
The THL Healthy Finland survey shows that the use of nicotine bags makes it difficult to achieve the objectives of the Tobacco Act.
Already Every fourth man under the age of 40 uses nicotine bags daily or occasionally, says the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).
Between 2022 and 2024, the use of nicotine bags for men under the age of 40 became more common from 13 % to 24 %.
Correspondingly, the use of men of working age, ie 20-64 years, doubled from 8 % to 17 % during the same period.
“The results show that the use of nicotine bags has become much more widespread, especially in the younger age group, when their sales have been very free,” says a specialist expert Otto Ruokolainen in the bulletin.
The proportion of people using nicotine bags daily is also on the rise. Five percent of the working -age people used preparations daily in 2024, compared with two per cent in 2022.
On the other hand, there are 13 % of nicotine bags today in nicotine bags daily, compared with four percent two years earlier. For women of the same age, the corresponding change was from 1 % to 5 %.
Score Based on THL’s Healthy Finland survey. Last year, 61,600 randomly selected 20 -year -olds from all over Finland were invited to the survey. 44 % of the survey responded to the survey between September 2024 and March 2025. The entire study will be published in May.
The survey found that more and more men of working age use a tobacco or nicotine product. Increased use seems to be due to the increasing use of nicotine bags. The proportion of working-age women using some tobacco or nicotine products has not changed.
No significant changes in the prevalence of smoking in the study were not observed. Smoking has not been the most common in smoking, ie men aged 40-64.
Daily snus was reduced to about 2018 in men of working -age men and was four percent in 2024.
Specialist Hanna Ollila According to the nicotine bag market, the goals of the Tobacco Act will make it difficult.
The aim of the Tobacco Act is to use less than 5 % of adults in 2030 to use tobacco and nicotine products daily.
“The use of nicotine bags is becoming more common in groups where smoking is already less.
Nicotine bag packaging on a special store shelf.
