What are smokeless tobacco products?
They come in lots of different forms, such as chewing tobacco, but it’s basically putting tobacco in your mouth and absorbing nicotine and lots of different chemicals into your body instead of inhaling them. You don’t generate any smoke. We used to refer to this as “spit tobacco,” since one of the things you do when you use it is you spit. But some newer products don’t require you to do that. Q: Are smokeless tobacco products better for you than cigarettes? A: They’re highly addicting. And the companies don’t have to adhere to any standards or regulations because there are none for these products, so the consumer really has no idea what is in the product. What you do when you use smokeless tobacco is you just trade your cancer. Instead of getting lung cancer, you get cancers of the lip, tongue, and head and neck cancers, which are just horrible cancers. The disfiguration and surgical procedures needed to treat many of these tumors are just terrible. You have other problems, some of whi
