Spit Tobacco

Spit Tobacco Links

• Hopkins Q&A: Dangers of Chewing Tobacco "Don't be fooled by the label 'smokeless'...the industry would love to have you belief 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 smoking." The facts.
  
• Addicted to Dipping WebMD article. Covers prevalence, effects. Joe Garagiola tells baseball players, "You lose your face one piece at a time until you are dead."
  
  
• Go Ask Alice!: Chewing tobacco risks Overview of plug, leaf, and snuff, and their effects.
  
• Spit Tobacco: Oral Cancer by the Can Spit Tobacco is as dangerous as smoking - from the About.com Guide
  
• Spit Tobacco and Oral Health Alliance of the California Dental Association info on spit tobacco, health consequeneces, quitting spitting, and, if you continue, the importance and how-tos of self-examination.
  
• Smokeless Tobacco or Health 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.
  
• Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of moist snuff in humans Article in scientific journal. Tested several brands of snuff. Measured results in human volunteers. "Large amounts of nicotine were delivered rapidly to the bloodstream".
  
• Learning Center: Smokeless Tobacco What is it, what are its health effects, does it contain enough nicotine to be addictive, how is it promoted.
  
• Spit Tobacco: Know the Score Fact sheet from the National Oral Information Clearninghouse (NOHIC).
  
• Oral Cancer Oral Cancer information on treatment, prevention, diagnosis, email groups, support groups, personal stories.
  
• 'Man without a face' to talk on results of chewing tobacco "As a 12-year-old Little Leaguer, Rick Bender tried his first plug of chewing tobacco, emulating his major-league heroes. At age 26, he was diagnosed with oral cancer. He underwent four surgeries over the next two years and lost one-third of his tongue, half of his jaw and partial use of his right arm. Since then, Bender has dedicated his life to educating people about the dangers of spit tobacco."
  
• Tobacco Intervention Network 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.
  
• CJR - Darts and Laurels, Jan/Feb 95 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.
  
• Spit obacco Hampers Ability To Perform Complex Tasks 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.
  
• Spit Tobacco Prevention Network Health risks, demographics; resources, info, and research data; how to do an oral cancer self-exam; faces of spit tobacco; tips to quit.
  
• Smokeless Tobacco Facts 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.
  
• AAP - Things You Should Know About Smokeless Tobacco Factsheet from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
  
• FTC: 1997 Smokeless Tobacco Report Numbers on how much the industry makes on the product, how much it spends promoting the product.
  
• Quit Smokeless Organization 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.
  
• A girl and her chew: one woman's story of spit tobacco use "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."
  
• Baseball Star Bagwell Snuffs Out Spitting Tobacco Jeff Bagwell stops using spit tobacco after pre-cancerous lesions started appearing inside his cheek; story explains.
  
• Antigutkha Crusade Dr. Kalyan Gangwal is fighting addiction among young children to guthka, a sweetened mixture of tobacco, betel and catechu.
  
• Carcinogens in 5 leading brands of snuff Scientific paper measures levels of carcinogenic N-nitrosamines in 5 leading U.S. brands of moist snuff.
  
• Baseball Players Who Use Spit Tobacco No Better Than Players Who Don't Chew 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.
  
• root 100 Ginseng chew; claims to be "a truly effective way to quit smokeless tobacco"; no measurements of effectiveness are presented.
  
• Tobacco and Baseball: A Dying Tradition Article on spit tobacco in baseball, with an emphasis on major league baseball.
  
• Spit Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Increasing Nearly $126 million was spent on advertising and promotion for spit tobacco products in 1994, an increase of $6.7 million from 1993.
  
• WebMD: Chewing Tobacco Use Linked to Cavities Besides gum disease and mouth cancer, spit tobacco causes cavities.
  
• Smokeless Tobacco: A Dangerous Habit For Everyone Article dealing with the health effects of spit tobacco (snuff and dipping tobacco).
  
• Spit Tobacco: Especially for Kids National Cancer Institute pamphlet. Covers product advertising and promotion, myths and truths about spit tobacco, and use in sports.
  
• Health-Center: Chewing Tobacco How cigarettes and spit tobacco are similar and different.
  
• Smokeless Tobacco Report: 1998-1999 The amount spent advertising and promoting spit tobacco hit an all time high in 199 at $1470 million; FTC report breaks it down by year and by type.
  
• National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP) 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.
  
• AAP: Smokeless Tobacco Some of the ingredients of spit tobacco may surprise you.
  
• PATCH Project Program Against Teen Chewing is a research study funded by the National Cancer Institute through the UAMS College of Nursing and the Arkansas Cancer Research Center. Their goal is to help adolescent males quit using spit tobacco (snuff or chewing tobacco). Information on how to quit using spit tobacco as well as the effects of spit tobacco.
  
• Spit Tobacco 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.
  
• Obituary: anti-spit tobacco crusader Bill Tuttle 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.
  
• ScienceDaily Magazine -- Use Of Smokeless Tobacco May Lead To Breast Cancer, Wake Forest Team Reports Preliminary results suggest that using smokeless tobacco may dramatically increase the risk of breast cancer, Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers reported.
  
• Spit Tobacco Prevention Network (STOPN) Features "the faces of spit tobacco". Also statistics on spit tobacco use, research links, and how to do an oral cancer self-exam.