Directory of Smokeless Tobacco Resources

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Sites about the health effects of using smokeless tobacco products, including chewing tobacco and snuff.

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• A girl and her chew: one woman's story of spit tobacco use

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/8/2/217.full
  "I had my first chew just before my 17th birthday...I had been a smoker for over three years at that point...I did quit smoking eventually. Chew proved much harder for me to stop."

• Baseball Star Bagwell Snuffs Out Spitting Tobacco

  http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2001-07-31-bagwell-tobacco.htm
  Jeff Bagwell stops using spit tobacco after pre-cancerous lesions started appearing inside his cheek; story explains.

• Baseball's Bad Habit

  http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/1996/07/broydo.html
  Magazine article on spit tobacco, its use in baseball, and how it's promoted.

• Carcinogens in 5 leading brands of snuff

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7494230?dopt=Abstract
  Scientific paper measures levels of carcinogenic N-nitrosamines in 5 leading U.S. brands of moist snuff.

• Chewing Tobacco Hampers Ability to Perform Complex Tasks

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/11/991117050042.htm
  The nicotine in spit tobacco reduces an individual's ability to perform complex tasks that require hand and body movements to adjust to new visual feedback, according to new research.

• MedlinePlus: Smokeless Tobacco

  https://medlineplus.gov/smokelesstobacco.html
  Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

• Obituary: anti-spit tobacco crusader Bill Tuttle

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/7/4/443.full
  Former major-league baseball player Bill Tuttle died in 1998 after a long battle with oral cancer. His life and death show what spit tobacco does to its customers, and how it's promoted by its manufacturers.

• Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of moist snuff in humans

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/8/4/387.full
  Article in scientific journal. Tested several brands of snuff. Measured results in human volunteers. "Large amounts of nicotine were delivered rapidly to the bloodstream".

• Quit Smokeless Organization

  http://quitsmokeless.org/
  When you're ready to quit, find the resources here that you need to kick the can. Info and support from people who've been there.

• ScienceDaily Magazine -- Use Of Smokeless Tobacco May Lead To Breast Cancer, Wake Forest Team Reports

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000509003313.htm
  Preliminary results suggest that using smokeless tobacco may dramatically increase the risk of breast cancer, Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers reported.

• Skoal and Urban Cowboy

  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Skoal_Urban_Cowboy
  A 1980 marketing report for Skoal provides an inside look at promotion of spit tobacco; in this report, U.S. Tobacco plans to link its brand to the popular 1980 movie "Urban Cowboy".

• Smokeless Tobacco or Health

  http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/2/
  Monograph from the National Cancer Institute. Epidemiology, clinical and pathological effects, carcinogenesis, nicotine effects and addiction, prevention, cessation, policy, and recommendations. All downloadable PDF files.

• Smokeless Tobacco: Tips on How to Stop

  http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/en/diseases-conditions/tobacco-addiction/treatment/smokeless-tobacco-tips-on-how-to-stop.html
  Information from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

• Spit Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Increasing

  http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/08/smokeless.htm
  2003 FTC report finds that the spit tobacco industry has spent more promoting its product every year since 1987.

• Tobacco Intervention Network

  http://www.quittobacco.com/
  Over 9,000 dentists, hygienists, cessation counselors, physicians, psychologists and other health professionals who want to help their patients quit the use of spit tobacco. How to quit spit tobacco, how health professionals can help their patients quit, news, and posters and videos on the subject.

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