This organization was created to aid the Swedish government in raising funds for its National Defense and its first Pension Reform. This Monopoly brought all the small individual snus manufacturers under the control of a central company known as Swedish Tobacco Monopoly LTD. This allowed for two things to happen, the quality standards of snus manufacturing to be consistent throughout all Swedish snus brands and also made it available to all Swedes. In fact, Swedish snus consumption between 1915 and 1919 increased to record levels once the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly was created! Up until the 1970’s, Swedish snus only came in the loose variety but, another revolution was about to hit the Swedish snus business and that revolution was the introduction of the portion type snus!
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