Their argument seems to be that snus is easier to market for young people with flavors and whatnot.

So if that’s their argument, why not ban the artificial flavoring of tobacco rather than the product? Since they dont want to ban the product in its other forms.

First of all. To declare my bias, i am Swedish. I do not use tobacco.

Tl;dr In my opinion. If they want to ban Snus, then they also need to ban cigarettes and vapes. Snus to many Swedes is what Cigarettes are to Germans and French. Imagine the revolt from those two if EU were to ban cigarettes everywhere.

They mention that Snus can be a gateway to cigarettes, but in all of my life, I’ve only seen the exact opposite. People who want to stop smoking, switch to snus. So, it’s the cigarettes which is a gateway to snus.

I truly hate those that just throw discarded “prillor”, used tobacco, on the ground, but that has been reduced a lot since the pouches now often come with a space to discard used ones. And at least i don’t have to breath in someone’s snus. So it doesn’t affect me.

This government will always stand on the side of Swedish snus users

While i don’t like snus or any tobacco at all for that matter. Obviously our trade minister is going to be on the side that benefits Swedens freedom and Swedish trade. That’s kind of literally his job.

If EU decided to ban Cigarettes everywhere for everyone. Well, guess how happy France or Germany would be about that.

You know the saying, Double standards are twice as good.

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not generally that women are banned from men’s sports.

It’s men that are banned from women’s sports.

What makes you think that they are not smarter than humans?

The past 30 years of studies conducted on them.

All of the things you’ve highlighted, except speaking to dolphins, are things primates also do.

The very specific topic for this post, were applied mathematics and critical thinking. And no, orcas do not show any advanced application of mathematics.

If you know of a study that indicates their understanding and application of mathematics rivals ours. Please link it.

The question was more intelligent that us in applied mathematics and critical thinking. Dolphins, whales, orcas have all been well studied. And while they are in the top 0.01% of intelligent life on earth. They are on average not smarter than humans. Though I can not speak for the below average humans.

The likelihood of that is a statistical zero.

Intelligent civilisations leave traces. We’ve found none that would indicate another species that would have the potential of rivaling us

I think you’re missing the context here that unions didn’t just pop up over night.

They started as many smaller unions, and with time, as communication capabilities advanced, workers could form even bigger unions.

We’ve got plenty of unions older than your entire country.

In addition to the other great answers, Swedes have a very, very long history of unions. Dating back as far as at least the 1500’s where Dacke, a peasant, gathered other peasants and lead an uprising against the king.

We learned quickly that together we are strong. And that mentality never subsided.

Together, even kings had to meet our demands and negotiate. Without us, the king has no army. Without an army. The king does not have a kingdom.

Workers everywhere knew they had to stick together, no matter what type of work they did. Unions in Sweden are not just organisations, they are our history and culture.

I don’t think you quite understand what they are saying.

This just means they won’t talk much about in this G7 meeting and instead focusing on other issues. That doesn’t mean the other 6 can’t discuss it amongst themselves later.

See it from their point of view, why waste 2 days of leaders meeting on something you know one country in particular is just going to reject instantly. They already know the US position. There’s no need to discuss it further here.

I think the dinosaur part is in reference to how muddy and trampled the ground looks.

That it looks as if a dinosaur waddling like an elephant had come through

Also worth noting that lack of regular erection can cause shrinkage. Since the tissue can lose part of its elasticity.

It’s normally not a problem at all even if you literally never masturbate, due to erections that occur during sleep.