How shall I help my father get rid of smokeless tobacco?

Can we ask if he wishes to quit? And, what type of ST does he use? (Answer is: he uses dip, and he doesn't want to quit.) I'd say you have one option: get him to use an oral product with a possibility of less risk. To me that indicates either nicotine gum or genuine Swedish Snus. read more

Rodu points out the importance of Lee & Hamling's work on this page: Cancer Risks from Smokeless Tobacco Use: Next To Nil. This is an important reference page because Lee is the world's leading epidemiologic statistician working with tobacco consumption statistics, and his work really is of an epic scale and authority. read more

A typical page on this subject can be found here: Nicotine Levels in American Smokeless Tobacco Products. A site search (use the search box low down in the left column) for <nicotine levels in ST> or similar will give you several pages. Rodu, the world authority on the oral pathology of tobacco consumption, is scrupulously accurate with his figures. read more

The trick is to take a pinch of chewing tobacco and mix it well with a handful of sausage. Then allow the dog to eat it. There is not enough tobacco in it to hurt the dog, and it does work to kill all kinds of worms except heart worms. read more