SMOKELESS DOES NOT

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SMOKELESS DOES NOT MEAN HARMLESS
Maranda Collins
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Smokeless Tobacco manufacturers
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National Tobacco Co.
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Swisher International
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Swedish Match
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Conwood Company
Portland, OR
Austin, TX
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U S Smokeless Tobacco Co.
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Marketing to Youth
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98 of guys who use chewing tobacco say their
male friends dont mind at all.
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Oddly enough there are no figures for how their
girlfriends feel about it.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Cherry Skoal is for somebody who likes the taste
of candy, if you know what I mean. Sales
representative for US Smokeless Tobacco Co.
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New users of smokeless tobacco . . . are most
likely to begin with products that are milder
tasting, more flavored and/or easier to control
in the mouth. After a period of time, there is a
natural progression of product switching to
brands that are more full-bodied, less flavored,
have more concentrated tobacco taste than the
entry brand.
(UST document, The
Graduation Theory)
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The National Drug Strategy Network reports that
the most popular brands of spit tobacco in the
U.S. are the ones with the most nicotine per
gram. For nicotine to be absorbed into the
bloodstream, the tobacco must have a pH of over
7. 
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Smokeless Tobacco Use in U.S. Males
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
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Smokeless Tobacco
Spit Tobacco
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Smokeless does not mean harmless
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Hydrazine (rocket propellant)
Cadmium (Used in car batteries)
Uranium 235 (used in nuclear weapons)
N-Nitrosamines (cancer causing agents)
Nicotine (addictive drug)
Acetaldehyde (irritant)
Polonium 210 (nuclear waste)
Benzopyrene (cancer-causing agent)
Formaldehyde (embalming fluid)
National Cancer Institute
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Holding an average-size dip in your mouth for 30
minutes gives you as much nicotine as smoking
three cigarettes. A 2-can-a-week snuff dipper
gets as much nicotine as a 1 ½ pack-a-day smoker
does.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial
Research
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Unburned tobacco contains nitrosamines, which are
known to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
Moist snuff contains nitrosamines up to 100 times
the lawful level permitted in regulated products
like bacon.
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A study of snuff carcinogenesis.Brunnemann KD,
Rivenson A, Adams JD, Hecht SS, Hoffmann
D.American Health Foundation, Naylor Dana
Institute for Disease Prevention, Valhalla, NY
10595
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The risk of cancer of cheek and gums may increase
nearly 50-fold among long-term snuff
users. American Cancer Society
The five-year survival rate for white patients is
56 percent and for African American patients is
only 34 percent. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
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Very graphic pictures of cancers
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Why Was TASK Created?

• To promote tobacco free teens by uniting
  communities to create one strong voice standing
  against the tobacco industry.

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• Become a leader in your community and sign up to
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• STOMP
• Tobacco-free skateboard events
• Tobacco summits

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