Friday, January 18, 2008
Myth Busted: Smokeless Tobacco Is Lesser Of Two Evils
Health officials are scrambling to come up with easier ways to quit, and many have toyed with the idea that smokeless tobacco could ease the transition off cigarettes. But research by University of Florida scientists suggests that tactic would be a catch-22, especially in younger smokers.
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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 “Research Snuffs Out Notion That Smokeless Tobacco Is Lesser Of Two Evils” when even in the article itself, they contradict their own title by saying "I don't think there's any doubt among members of the scientific community that smokeless tobacco carries a lower risk of death than does cigarette smoking".
The article goes further in the next sentence "On the other hand, that alone doesn't necessarily make it an appropriate recommendation coming from the health community". 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; this dental Professor appears to have
forgotten his.
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.
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