Chapter 17 Smokeless Tobacco

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Smokeless Tobacco: General

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90% of smokeless tobacco users in high school report that they purchased their own

supplies, and 94% said that although they were minors, it was either never or only

rarely difficult for them to purchase smokeless tobacco.

Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People, 1994 Surgeon General report, p.

141

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As recently as 1975, only 3% of the US population used smokeless tobacco; use was

primarily in older men at this time.

Preventive Medicine 16:402, 1987

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12 million American men use smokeless tobacco. Of these, 90% are white, and 50%

live in the South.

Nicotine Addiction, p. 263

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Four classes of carcinogens in smokeless tobacco are N-nitrosamines, radioactive

polonium-210, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and volatile aldehydes.

Nitrosamines are found in smokeless tobacco in quantities between 10 and 1400

times greater than the allowable amounts for food and beverages.

Nicotine Addiction, p. 265

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The total concentration of carcinogenic nitrosamines in snuff is 10 to 100 times higher

than the levels in the inhaled smoke of one cigarette and 20,000 times higher than the

level allowed by the FDA and the Department of Agriculture in food.

World Smoking and Health No. 1, 1994 and NEJM, April 17, 1986, p. 1023

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