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 A girl and her chew: one woman's story of spit tobacco use Description: "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." (tc.bmjjournals.com) |
| AAP - Things You Should Know About Smokeless Tobacco Description: Factsheet from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). (aap.org) |
| AAP: Smokeless Tobacco Description: Some of the ingredients of spit tobacco may surprise you. (aap.org) |
| ADA, Coalition Ask FTC to Prohibit Smokeless Tobacco Health Claims Description: The ADA joined 40 national health and other organizations in urging the Federal Trade Commission to reject a spit tobacco industry request to claim its product is safer. (ada.org) |
| Baseball Players Who Use Spit Tobacco No Better Than Players Who Don't Chew Description: Major league baseball players who use spit tobacco don't hit, pitch, or field better than players who don't use it, according to recent research. (ada.org) |
| Baseball Star Bagwell Snuffs Out Spitting Tobacco Description: Jeff Bagwell stops using spit tobacco after pre-cancerous lesions started appearing inside his cheek; story explains. (usatoday.com) |
| Baseball's Bad Habit Description: Magazine article on spit tobacco, its use in baseball, and how it's promoted. (motherjones.com) |
| Cancer Control: Smokeless Tobacco Description: Factsheet from the National Cancer Institute covers: seeing past spit tobacco advertising and promotion; myths and truths about spit tobacco; spit tobacco and sports (cancercontrol.cancer.gov) |
| Carcinogens in 5 leading brands of snuff Description: Scientific paper measures levels of carcinogenic N-nitrosamines in 5 leading U.S. brands of moist snuff. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| Chewing Tobacco Hampers Ability to Perform Complex Tasks Description: 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. (sciencedaily.com) |
| CJR - Darts and Laurels, Jan/Feb 95 Description: The Columbia Journalism Review is the premier publication on the web about journalism, for journalists; this column summarizes and criticizes several recent news stories on tobacco. (cjr.org) |
| Comments to FTC on Smokeless Tobacco Description: Collection of letters and documents submitted to the Federal Trade Commission regarding spit tobacco; covers policy questions, labelling, harm reduction, addiction, ingredients, and effects. (ftc.gov) |
| Expert Commentary: Dangers Of Chewing Tobacco Description: "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. (intelihealth.com) |
| Facts You Should Know About Smokeless (Spit) Tobacco Description: Factsheet from Saskatchewan Health. Ingredients, effects, disease, addictive product, quit tips, prevention. (health.gov.sk.ca) |
| Former Baseball Player Warns Arkansas Teens against "Smokeless" Tobacco Description: Article about a program on "smokeless" tobacco. (uams.edu) |
| Go Ask Alice!: Chewing tobacco risks Description: Overview of plug, leaf, and snuff, and their effects. (goaskalice.columbia.edu) |
| In The Know Zone - Spit Tobacco Description: Types of spit tobacco, risks, promotion tricks. (intheknowzone.com) |
| Kids and Chew Description: Transcript of TV show on kids and spit tobacco in Nebraska explores why teens have been convinced that chew is a safe alternative to cigarettes. (net.unl.edu) |
| Know the Dangers: Mouth Problems Description: The warning signs of mouth cancer. (quitnet.com) |
| MEDLINEplus: Smokeless Tobacco Description: Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. (nlm.nih.gov) |
| National Cancer Institute: Smokeless Tobacco Description: Pamphlet provides facts about spit tobacco, including its health effects. (dccps.nci.nih.gov) |
| National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP) Description: Educational program designed to reduce use of spit tobacco, especially among children. Gassroots efforts to build a nation-wide network of spit tobacco education and cessation resources. (nstep.org) |
| Native Women's Use of Smokeless Tobacco May Increase Risk of Breast Cancer Description: A study of Cherokee women in the U.S. showed the risk of breast cancer is nearly eight times that of women who do not use smokeless tobacco. (oncolink.com) |
| NIDCR Publications on Spit Tobacco Description: Posters, brochures, and pamphlets on the effects of the product, what it does to young athletes, a guide for quitting, and a graphic look at what the spit tobacco industry won't tell you. (nidr.nih.gov) |
| Obituary: anti-spit tobacco crusader Bill Tuttle Description: 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. (tc.bmjjournals.com) |
| Oral Health America: Smokeless Not A Safe Alternative Description: The tacts on spit tobacco, in response to an attempt by U.S. Tobacco to promote its tobacco product as a safe alternative to cigarettes. (oralhealthamerica.org) |
| Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of moist snuff in humans Description: Article in scientific journal. Tested several brands of snuff. Measured results in human volunteers. "Large amounts of nicotine were delivered rapidly to the bloodstream". (tc.bmjjournals.com) |
| Quit Smokeless Organization Description: 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. (quitsmokeless.org) |
| ScienceDaily Magazine -- Use Of Smokeless Tobacco May Lead To Breast Cancer, Wake Forest Team Reports Description: Preliminary results suggest that using smokeless tobacco may dramatically increase the risk of breast cancer, Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers reported. (sciencedaily.com) |
| Skoal and Urban Cowboy Description: 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". (smokescreen.org) |
| Smokeless Tobacco Advertising and Promotional Expenditures and Revenues Up, According to FTC Report to Congress Description: An all-time high of $170 million was spent advertising and promoting spit tobacco in 1999; FTC report breaks it down. (ftc.gov) |
| Smokeless Tobacco and Cancer: Questions and Answers Description: National Cancer Institute FAQ on spit tobacco, health effects, and quitting. (cis.nci.nih.gov) |
| Smokeless Tobacco Facts Description: 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. (www1.umn.edu) |
| Smokeless Tobacco or Health Description: Monograph from the National Cancer Institite. Epidemiology, clinical and pathological effets, carcinogenesis, nitocine effects and addiction, prevention, cessation, policy, and recommendations. All downloadable PDF files. (cancercontrol.cancer.gov) |
| Smokeless Tobacco: Tips on How to Stop Description: Information from the American Academy of Family Physicians. (familydoctor.org) |
| Snuff and Loose-leaf have Big Nicotine Doses Description: Tobacco companies keep secret the nicotine levels in their spit tobacco, but independent measurement finds high levels of nicotine and free-base nicotine. (hbns.org) |
| Spit Tobacco Description: Factsheet from the American Academy of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery: what is spit tobacco, what's in it, physical and mental effects, early warning signs of oral cancer, quitting tips, and at the bottom of the page, a highly graphic graphic. (sinuscarecenter.com) |
| Spit Tobacco - It's No Game Description: Outlines chemicals in spit tobacco and diseases it causes. (entnet.org) |
| Spit Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Increasing Description: 2003 FTC report finds that the spit tobacco industry has spent more promoting its product every year since 1987. (ftc.gov) |
| Spit Tobacco Prevention Network Description: Texas coalition working to eliminate spit tobacco use in the state. (nospit.com) |
| Spit Tobacco, Dental Health, and Cancer Description: Information from the Academy of General Dentistry on effects of spit tobacco; mouth sores; double dippers; addiction; and kicking the habit. (agd.org) |
| Spit Tobacco: A Guide for Quitting Description: Put together by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Dental Research, covers health effects of spit tobacco, addiction, myths and truths, quitting, extra help, and resources. (nidcr.nih.gov) |
| Spit Tobacco: Does Smokeless Mean Harmless Description: 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. (mayoclinic.com) |
| Spit Tobacco: Know the Score Description: Fact sheet from the National Oral Information Clearinghouse (NOHIC). In .pdf format. (regionsix.com) |
| Spit Tobacco: Oral Cancer by the Can Description: Spit Tobacco is as dangerous as smoking - from the About.com Guide (quitsmoking.about.com) |
| Spit Tobacco: Oral Cancer by the Can Description: Short article outlines the medical facts: half of all oral cancer patients are alive 5 years after diagnosis. (quitsmoking.about.com) |
| Spittin' Image Description: Column on spit tobacco in sports. (sportsillustrated.cnn.com) |
| Study Exposes Dangers of Snuff For Smokers to Quit Description: 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. (ascribe.org) |
| Tobacco Facts - Spit and Chew Tobacco Description: Factsheet on spit tobacco product, what's in it, and what it does to its customers, featuring the story of Rick Bender. (tobaccofacts.org) |
| Tobacco Intervention Network Description: 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. (quittobacco.com) |
| What the Tobacco Industry Won't Show You Description: Health poster takes a close look at a fatal mouth cancer caused by spit tobacco. (nohic.nidcr.nih.gov) |
| Would a Switch from Cigarettes to Smokeless Tobacco Benefit Public Health? No Description: Presents the case against recommending that smokers switch to smokeless tobacco products. (acsh.org) |
| Would a Switch from Cigarettes to Smokeless Tobacco Benefit Public Health? Yes Description: Presents the case for recommending that smokers switch to smokeless tobacco products. (acsh.org) |
