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Snus

felthamaddict
felthamaddict Posts: 200
edited June 2024 in Other Football and Sports
I just read 20% of Premier and Championship players use snus (tobacco pouches) to enhance performance. Anybody know anything about this?

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  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,581
    https://news.sky.com/story/one-in-five-professional-footballers-using-snus-or-tobacco-free-nicotine-pouches-says-study-13144487#:~:text=Snus, pronounced 'snoose',,as well as cardiovascular disease.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,043
    edited May 2024
    Least we know that our players over the last few seasons are clean!!
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,827
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv24oRisoa0
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,413
    Certainly our defenders were known to snooze
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,765
    edited May 2024
    Bedsaddick said:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv24oRisoa0
    Is that a Snus Video? 😧
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,516
    Won't be the only thing they're taking, that's for sure. 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,517
    https://youtu.be/lyFk-Z80P6k?si=PWSbxdWpQMZuGqka
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,938
    I tried it years ago in norway and it absolutely blew my head off, I can imagine its harder to quit than smoking.
  • LonelyNorthernAddick
    LonelyNorthernAddick Posts: 2,423
    SELR_addicks said:
    Won't be the only thing they're taking, that's for sure. 
    100%. I'm convinced performance enhancers are rampant across most sports - especially football. Massive sums of money at play for tiny margins of just a point or two difference and as far as I know any drug testing is few and far between.
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,516
    LonelyNorthernAddick said:
    SELR_addicks said:
    Won't be the only thing they're taking, that's for sure. 
    100%. I'm convinced performance enhancers are rampant across most sports - especially football. Massive sums of money at play for tiny margins of just a point or two difference and as far as I know any drug testing is few and far between.
    TUEs are a minefield in football. 

    The people in charge of the support know it's rampant and will allow it to continue.

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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,669
    At least we can be proud that Charlton have been free of performance enhancing drugs for years.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,939
    It's amazing how many high performing athletes, including footballers, are asthmatic. 

    At least, according to their prescriptions they are.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,282
    Off_it said:
    It's amazing how many high performing athletes, including footballers, are asthmatic. 

    At least, according to their prescriptions they are.
    Thats always made me laugh, cycling about 95% of the riders on the big tours have diagnosis' of asthma which is astonishing. Klopp or one of his backroom people cottoned on to this when he was at Dortmund and got most of the squad diagnosed. Ultimately a doctor can diagnose anyone with anything I suppose and subsequently issue a prescription for something that enhances lung capacity. Mental
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,765
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    At least we can be proud that Charlton have been free of performance enhancing drugs for years.
    Or maybe we could only afford pub grub versions?
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,307
    It's a big industry in Sweden. I had a lot of Swedish guests at the guesthouse in Phuket and a lot of them used snus. A friend of mine, a regular user, was diagnosed with throat cancer a few years ago. Despite getting the all clear, not only does he still use snus, he also sells it, as it's quite a money maker with the Scandinavian expats.

    This revelation regarding footballers really surprised me as I've not known anyone outside Scandinavia using  snus. 


  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,765
    I tried one of my mates on a stag do last week. He had the strongest one you can buy. Felt absolutely amazing for about a minute then horrendously light headed and sick for about an hour :D I'm not a smoker so I guess the nicotine was like rocket fuel for me.
  • 9goalswentpastperry
    9goalswentpastperry Posts: 1,111
    Pelling1993 said:
    I tried one of my mates on a stag do last week. He had the strongest one you can buy. Felt absolutely amazing for about a minute then horrendously light headed and sick for about an hour :D I'm not a smoker so I guess the nicotine was like rocket fuel for me.
    Blimey, I'm glad all my pals have settled down. 
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,938
    Pelling1993 said:
    I tried one of my mates on a stag do last week. He had the strongest one you can buy. Felt absolutely amazing for about a minute then horrendously light headed and sick for about an hour :D I'm not a smoker so I guess the nicotine was like rocket fuel for me.
    I was a coke fiend when I tried it and it still made me high as a kite! 
  • The Prince-e-Paul
    The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,701
    A very popular thing in Sweden to hand around the dinner table after a meal. Used by many non-smokers.  Wife is a nurse here and lots of nurses have one under their top lip during a shift, lol. You can spot them as they look like their lip is protruding slightly. 

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