Unlike chewing tobacco, snus doesn't require spitting, and it's pasteurized, which helps reduce the formation of harmful nitrosamines (cancer-causing agents)
Heishman SJ, Singleton EG, Moolchan ET (2003)
If they do nothing at all there are going to be massive costs for China in terms of premature deaths, health care costs, environmental costs, economic costs, family costs there are all manners of costs. Substantial population growth and unchanging smoking prevalence in populous countries such as China, Bangladesh and Indonesia help explain why since 2006 the global decline in daily tobacco smoking has decelerated
If that's not a superpower, then we don't know what is
There's some evidence snus might be a tad healthier than chew, though I wouldn't bet my insurance premium on it