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Spit Tobacco: Does Smokeless Mean Harmless - http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?objectid=BDFA0D03-F8D7-42B2-A8D23038227F0F3A&locID=
Mayo Clinic article explains why spit tobacco, also known as chew, snuff, or dip, causes addiction, disease, and death just like cigarettes and other tobacco products. |
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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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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. |
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Spit Tobacco Prevention Network - http://www.nospit.com/
Texas coalition working to eliminate spit tobacco use in the state. |
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Facts You Should Know About Smokeless (Spit) Tobacco - http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/rr_smokeless_tobacco.html
Factsheet from Saskatchewan Health. Ingredients, effects, disease, addictive product, quit tips, prevention. |
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Tobacco Facts - Spit and Chew Tobacco - http://www.tobaccofacts.org/tob_truth/spit.html
Factsheet on spit tobacco product, what's in it, and what it does to its customers, featuring the story of Rick Bender. |
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Smokeless Tobacco Facts - http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/smokeless.html
From the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology. Short factsheet covers types of product; prevalence of use; industry advertising and promotion; effects of use; addiction. |
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Spittin' Image - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/magazine/life_of_reilly/news/2002/03/13/life_of_reilly/
Column on spit tobacco in sports. |
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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. |
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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". |
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Know the Dangers: Mouth Problems - http://www.quitnet.com/library/guides/Beat_The_Habit/BTH_Danger.jtml
The warning signs of mouth cancer. |
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Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of moist snuff in humans - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/4/387
Article in scientific journal. Tested several brands of snuff. Measured results in human volunteers. "Large amounts of nicotine were delivered rapidly to the bloodstream". |
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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. |
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Obituary: anti-spit tobacco crusader Bill Tuttle - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/4/443
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. |
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A girl and her chew: one woman's story of spit tobacco use - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/2/217
"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." |
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Snuff and Loose-leaf have Big Nicotine Doses - http://www.hbns.org/news/snuff12-15-03.cfm
Tobacco companies keep secret the nicotine levels in their spit tobacco, but independent measurement finds high levels of nicotine and free-base nicotine. |
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Study Exposes Dangers of Snuff For Smokers to Quit - http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20021024.133604&time=14%2054%20PDT&year=2002&public=1
As tobacco companies promote smokeless tobacco as a safer alternative to cigarettes, many smokers who take up snuff in an effort to quit instead end up using both products, warns a researcher. Furthermore, nonsmokers who use snuff are more likely than those who don't to eventually begin smoking. |
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Spit Tobacco: Oral Cancer by the Can - http://quitsmoking.about.com/library/weekly/aa042699.htm?once=true&
Short article outlines the medical facts: half of all oral cancer patients are alive 5 years after diagnosis. |
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Carcinogens in 5 leading brands of snuff - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=7494230&dopt=Abstract
Scientific paper measures levels of carcinogenic N-nitrosamines in 5 leading U.S. brands of moist snuff. |
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Expert Commentary: Dangers Of Chewing Tobacco - http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/21827/24753/184343.html?d=dmtICNNews
"Don't be fooled by the label 'smokeless'...the industry would love to have you believe that chewing tobacco and snuff are a safe alternative to cigarettes. In fact, what the medical professionals call 'spit tobacco' is just as addictive -- and just as likely to cause cancer and heart disease -- as cigarettes." The facts. |