Fuisz Tobacco Announces Clinical Study Results for Fuisz Tobacco Sheet Strip; Super Enhanced Bioavailability of Nicotine From Its Tobacco Sheet Strip Supports Efficacy of Low Dose Tobac...( WASHINGTON May 20 -- Fuisz Tobac...),Health

WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fuisz Tobacco today announces the results of a cross-over clinical study comparing the absorption of nicotine from the use of Fuisz Tobacco's dissolving tobacco strip and the use of a nicotine 2mg chewing gum -- the study's control.

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The results demonstrate extraordinary nicotine bioavailability for the Fuisz Tobacco strip. A Fuisz Tobacco strip containing 75 mg's of tobacco delivered substantially higher peak nicotine plasma concentration than the 2 mg nicotine chewing gum control product. This suggests that the Fuisz Tobacco strip delivers nicotine more than five times more effectively than the SNUS tobacco format, which is considered to represent the most efficacious smokeless tobacco format for nicotine delivery currently available.

The study design was based upon the Lunell study of Swedish SNUS nicotine absorption. The Lunell study is part of the so called Gothiatek(R) standards developed by leading SNUS marketer Swedish Match.

Joseph Fuisz, Fuisz Tobacco's Managing Member commented: "These study results represent a remarkable advance for smokeless tobacco. By delivering tobacco satisfaction from a dramatically smaller amount of tobacco, we can substantially lower the amount of tobacco used in the adult consumer friendly Fuisz Tobacco strip. This news should be welcomed by the harm reduction community, the tobacco industry, and adult smokers alike."

Fuisz Tobacco's Founding Member, Richard Fuisz, M.D., stated: "We have a new concept here. The Fuisz Tobacco strip is not a cigarette and yet the user gets nicotine from its tobacco. This is not a pouch that does not efficiently transfer nicotine and then must be removed from the mouth and is environmentally as damaging as a cigarette. This gives off no smoke and is unaffected by smoking
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