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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 17 Smokeless Tobacco |
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| | Smokeless Tobacco: General |
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| | "It has not been scientifically established that smokeless tobacco causes adverse |
| | medical effects." |
| | Alan Hilburg, spokesman for the Smokeless Tobacco Council (New York Times, |
| | May 3, 1998, p. 17) |
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| | The average age of initiation for "spit" or smokeless tobacco is age 9; 67% of a |
| | sample began at age 12 or younger, and 28% were 5 years old or younger when they |
| | first tried it. The highest spit tobacco use rates are in Native Americans, where female |
| | use rates sometimes equal males. |
| | Spit Tobacco and Youth, US Dept. of Health and Human Services, 1992, p. 4 |
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