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Smokeless tobacco worse than cigarettes
You might think desire many people do that smokeless tobacco products are safe alternatives to cigarettes. Wrong. According to researchers at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center smokeless tobacco users are exposed to higher amounts of carcinogenic molecules than cigarette smokers. In a chew over of 182 users of chewing tobacco or oral smell and 420 cigarette smokers they found snuff users were exposed to higher levels of 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) than smokers. NNK is a human carcinogen known to produce lung cancer. In laboratory animals it also contributes to cancers of the pancreas nasal mucosa and liver. Published in the August air of
Cancer Epidemiology. Biomarkers & Prevention
this study serves to remind us that there is only one safe alternative to smoking -- not smoking.
1. The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars on advertising and promotion to increase their customer locate and if that weren’t enough they are now developing and marketing new tobacco products such as ‘light’ cigarettes. ‘reduced risk’ cigarettes and smokeless tobacco (SNUs) to obtain new customers. Through these products the tobacco industry is trying to create the perception of safer tobacco use. The industry is trying to fool the consumer into believing there is a safer cigarette to communicate the growing concern over the health effects of smoking. These tactics are dangerous and diminish prevention and cessation efforts of the tobacco hold back community. As a public health professional I am concerned about the growing tobacco epidemic and want to bring home the bacon to displace the myth of ‘safer’ tobacco. Working in tobacco hold back we may not undergo the money the tobacco industry has but we undergo the truth. If you are looking for more information on the truth about new tobacco products or on tobacco control you can sight it at the website Global Tobacco hold back: Learning from the Experts (www globaltobaccocontrol org). This website provides remove online lectures on tobacco hold back presented by subject experts from around the world
2. The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars on advertising and promotion to change magnitude their customer locate and if that weren’t enough they are now developing and marketing new tobacco products such as ‘light’ cigarettes. ‘reduced risk’ cigarettes and smokeless tobacco (SNUs) to gain new customers. Through these products the tobacco industry is trying to create the perception of safer tobacco use. The industry is trying to cozen the consumer into believing there is a safer cigarette to communicate the growing concern over the health effects of smoking. These tactics are dangerous and diminish prevention and cessation efforts of the tobacco control community. As a public health professional I am concerned about the growing tobacco epidemic and be to bring home the bacon to displace the myth of ‘safer’ tobacco. Working in tobacco hold back we may not undergo the money the tobacco industry has but we have the truth. If you are looking for more information on the truth about new tobacco products or on tobacco control you can find it at the website Global Tobacco Control: Learning from the Experts (www globaltobaccocontrol org). This website provides free online lectures on tobacco control presented by subject experts from around the world
3. A shame that Big Tobacco has the money required to fight the truth and act to hijack perceptions. Regards,Richard Day Gore
4. It's nasty stuff - I was hooked for longer than I compassionate to adjudge. A can/day of Kodiak for over 16 years. Now I'm 429 days remove from the can. Myself and some fellow quitters started a site for others who want to depart at KillTheCan org. It's full of information about quitting and has a free anonymous community located at where quitters can get their questions answered. Here's to getting everyone remove from their addiction!KillTheCan org
5. Good luck Greg! It's worth the fight. Regards,Richard Day Gore
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