Website Collation Project

Tobacco and Your Oral Health - Articles on smoking and periodontal disease, cigars and oral health, smokeless tobacco and oral health, and sports and chewing tobacco. Wisconsin, Smokeless Tobacco Council - Lobbists employed by the spit tobacco trade organization to lobby in Wisconsin. Cancer Control: Smokeless Tobacco - Factsheet from the National Cancer Institute covers: seeing past spit tobacco advertising and promotion; myths and truths about spit tobacco; spit tobacco and sports Oral Health America: Smokeless Not A Safe Alternative - 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. American Cancer Society: Harmful Effects of Tobacco - Information related to use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and exposure to secondhand smoke. ADA, Coalition Ask FTC to Prohibit Smokeless Tobacco Health Claims - 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. 19 year old Sean Marsee's Tobacco Message - High school athlete Sean Marsee's experience with smokeless tobacco and snuff. FDA - Children and Tobacco - Children and Tobacco: The Food and Drug Administration finds that nicotine in cigarettes and smokeless tobacco is a drug. and that these products are drug delivery devices. Smokeless Tobacco Advertising and Promotional Expenditures and Revenues Up, According to FTC Report to Congress - An all-time high of $170 million was spent advertising and promoting spit tobacco in 1999; FTC report breaks it down. California, Smokeless Tobacco Council - Firms and lobbyists used by the spit tobacco trade group to lobby in California. Spit Tobacco: Does Smokeless Mean Harmless - 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. North Carolina, Smokeless Tobacco - Lobbyists for spit tobacco in North Carolina. AAP: Smokeless Tobacco - Some of the ingredients of spit tobacco may surprise you. SmokeLess States - National tobacco policy initiative that supports statewide coalitions with the goal of reducing tobacco use. Online newsletter, factsheets and information on tobacco taxes, secondhand smoke, and quitting smoking. Jon's Pipe Shop - Located in Champaign, Illinois. Sells pipes, cigars, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and other products. Expert Commentary: Dangers Of Chewing Tobacco - "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. - Study Exposes Dangers of Snuff For Smokers to Quit - 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. NIEHS 9th Report on Carcinogens - Evaluation of substances by scientists from the National Toxicology Program has listing that includes Environmental Tobacco Smoking, Tobacco Smoke, and Smokeless Tobacco. Third International Conference on Smokeless Tobacco - Goal is advancing science and protecting public health; held in Stockholm September 22-25 2002. Native Women's Use of Smokeless Tobacco May Increase Risk of Breast Cancer - 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.