These are defined as cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, smoking tobacco, chewing tobacco and the aforementioned snus.[xxiv] Indeed, all new tobacco and nicotine products must be approved by the Norwegian Directorate of Health before they can be sold in the country.[xxv] At the time of writing, while a handful of applications from nicotine pouch and heated tobacco products manufacturers have been submitted to the Directorate, none has yet been approved, meaning they are effectively banned in Norway.[xxvi] The nicotine pouch applications were refused due to fears they could appeal to young people.[xxvii] But a strange legal quirk means nicotine pouches that contain a small amount of tobacco can circumvent the rules that would normally prevent them being imported.[xxviii] These pouches can be bought legally as they come under existing Norwegian legislation that permits the sale of snus
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