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What is better: chewing tobacco or smoking a cigarette?

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If you hold an average-sized plug in your mouth for 30 minutes, you'll end up with as much nicotine as if you had smoked four cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco includes more than 28 cancer-causing substances, including the tobacco-specific carcinogen nitrosamines. read more

If it is a question of wishing to consume tobacco but also wanting to avoid cancer, there is one clear winner: genuine Swedish Snus. It has no statistically assessed association with mouth cancer or any form of cancer [1][2]. read more

Chewing tobacco is a common type of smokeless tobacco. Smokeless tobacco products consist of tobacco or a tobacco blend that's chewed, sucked on or sniffed, rather than smoked. Nicotine is absorbed through the soft tissues of the mouth and in some cases swallowed. read more

Chewing tobacco has 1/10th the risk of smoking for developing cancer. Both have been correlated with an increased risk in Cancer, however the lungs are a more sensitive area than the mouth. That being said, chewing tobacco has a 3 times greater risk of aggrevating heart disease due to the increased amount of nicotine in the system and associated withdrawl symptoms. read more

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