Chewing Tobacco Worse Than You Think

A new study on the smokeless tobacco product called moist snuff placed between lip and gum - has led scientists in Minnesota to urge the tobacco industry to change manufacturing practices to reduce snuff's content of carcinogens. Their study is published online in ACS' monthly journal Chemical Research in Toxicology. It reports that this category of tobacco products contains surprisingly high levels of certain toxic and cancer-causing substances. Called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), they may contribute to carcinogenic effects associated with smokeless tobacco use. Irina Stepanov and colleagues note that use of moist snuff increased by almost 80 fold between 1986-2003, ...

Source: http://www.metronycdentist.com/blog/2009/12/moist-snuff-contaminated-with-harmful-substances.htm

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