One afternoon two seasons ago, an EFL manager was tidying a locker during the players’ warm-up when, underneath a pile of socks and shorts, he found a tin of something he did not recognise. The kit ...

Professional football’s complicated relationship with tobacco pouches and snus is back in the limelight after the release of a study commissioned by the Professional Footballers’ Association. The ...

The Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) has launched a joint research study with Loughborough University into the use of snus in football. Snus is a tobacco product that originates from Sweden ...

Snus users who stopped using snus experienced higher blood pressure and gained weight. This has been shown by a research group at Linköping University, Sweden, in a study on 33 people, published in ...