Smokeless Tobacco - Even More Dangerous Than Cigarettes?
Following the debate which readers of our website have opened in their comments to the article “Tobacco Should be Made Illegal” by claiming that smokeless tobacco represents a safer alternative to cigarettes, let us object here by presenting some of the recently published
scientific facts and research coming from such reputable sources as the American Chemical Society, the Wake Forest University School Of Medicine, and the American Association for Cancer Research.
According to the August, 2007 issue of the American Association for Cancer Research’s Journal “Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention”, smokeless tobacco supplies users with the same amount of carcinogenic substances as cigarettes and even higher amounts of nitrosamines - specific to tobacco carcinogenic molecules.
Oral snuff, a widely spread form of chewing tobacco, is becoming increasingly popular in the US due to the conventional belief that smokeless tobacco is less harmful for users’ health. However, according to the results of the research conducted by Minnesota scientists and sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, and the American Cancer Society, snuff chewers are exposed to much higher levels of NNKs - dangerous carcinogenic chemicals that can cause pancreatic, lung, liver, and nasal mucosa cancers, than cigarette smokers. The study examined separate groups of snuff and cigarette users and revealed that oral tobacco was more efficient in delivering potent carcinogenic substances into the human body. The fact is that crewing forms of tobacco supply carcinogens directly into the bloodstream via oral mucosa, while, in smoking, part of carcinogens are neutralized in the respiratory tract of smokers.
NNKs and other nitrosamines, contained in cigars, cigarettes, chews, and snuffs, are by-products of the manufacturing process that turns raw tobacco leaves into ready-to use, smoking and smokeless tobacco products. Swedish snus, although having a reduced dosage of nitrosamines, still induces dangerous carcinogenic effects on users due to its certain levels of NNK.
According to the January, 2007 issue of the ACS Journal “Chemical Research in Toxicology”, smokeless tobacco is not only contaminated with high amounts of potentially dangerous nitrosamines (about 1,000 higher than in any other product!), but also induces a much higher risk of oral cancer. However, many consumers still believe that snuff is a safer alternative to cigarettes and other types of smoking tobacco.
Another alarming news is that smokeless tobacco is associated with a dramatically elevated incidence of breast cancer. Researchers of the Wake Forest University School Of Medicine, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, have linked the use of snus to the EIGHTFOLD increase in the risk of breast cancer!
These recent research confirms that the incidence of many malignancies, especially oral cancer and breast cancer, can be greatly reduced if users quit consuming both smoking and smokeless tobacco in ANY FORM.
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Posted on January 28, 2008
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I would like to point out that not all smokeless tobacco is for oral use and Toque Tobacco a nasal snuff has been proven to be 99% safer than smoking. With no known harm ever being recorded for nasal snuff, and the number of educated smokers switching to less harmful nasal snuff rising every day, it is reprehensible of these researchers to title this article “Smokeless Tobacco - Even More Dangerous Than Cigarettes”.
This is madness killing smokers by not informing them that there is another form of safer tobacco, is tant amount to murder. In the medical profession Doctors have a Hippocratic Oath to save lives; these researchers appear to have
forgotten Thiers.
I have to say that I question the intelligence of the writer of such an article, when medical associations of the caliber of the Royal College of Physicians and Cancer Research have provided substantial evidence to the contrary.
Professor Martin Jarvis, of Cancer Research UK: says that the health implications surrounding snuff use are significantly lower than smoking. “Studies show that the health hazards surrounding snuff are much less than cigarettes and the risk is approximately one per cent compared with the risks associated with smoking,” he explains. “The reason for this is that by smoking you are setting fire to the products which causes their combustion. Snuff doesn’t have the combustion products which are carcinogenic and all the user is getting is the nicotine.”
The late Dr Michael Russell, father of tobacco addiction research:
“Snuff could save more lives and avoid more ill-health than any other preventive measure likely to be available to developed nations well into the 21st century”. “Switching from cigarettes to snuff could have enormous health benefits”. Snuffing has two major advantages… Firstly there are no products of combustion such as tar, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen. Secondly it cannot be inhaled into the lungs, which eliminates any risk of lung cancer.”
Professor (Sir) Robert Peto, Oxford University, World renowned epidemiologist on smoking:
“If this or some other such habit were to become widespread and did to any substantial extent replace smoking (particularly of cigarettes) then the net effect would be likely to be a reduction in tobacco-induced mortality.
people specially the teenager think that smokless and smoking tobaco,both can not harm them to their young age,& after their enjoyful period of life they will leave these harmful substance .and there will be no affect to their bodies .this never will happen ,starting of bad thing will not lead you towards your end of life or nice time passing whether u are doing that for your entertainment or mojmasti(hindi word).I think sucking of smokless tobacco is more dangerous to health than smoking cigratte.Because it is general thinking that smokeless is like raw material with no effect lost ,& smoking is like taking something after cooking with some nutrient lost.But save your souls my friends by not taking both of these.