- Addicted to Dipping
WebMD article. Covers prevalence, effects. Joe Garagiola tells baseball players, "You lose your face one piece at a time until you are dead."
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Dr. Kalyan Gangwal is fighting addiction among young children to guthka, a sweetened mixture of tobacco, betel and catechu.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - CJR - Darts and Laurels, Jan/Feb 95
The Columbia Journalism Review is the premier publication on the web about journalism, for journalists; this column summarizes and criticizes several recent news stories on tobacco.
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"Don't be fooled by the label 'smokeless'...the industry would love to have you belief that chewing tobacco and snuff are a safe alternative to cigarettes. In fact, what the medical professionals call 'spit tobacco' is just as addictive -- and just as likely to cause cancer and heart disease -- as cigarettes smoking." The facts.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Obituary: anti-spit tobacco crusader Bill Tuttle
Former major-league baseball player Bill Tuttle died in 1998 after a long battle with oral cancer. His life and death show what spit tobacco does to its customers, and how it's promoted by its manufacturers.
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Oral Cancer information on treatment, prevention, diagnosis, email groups, support groups, personal stories.
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Program Against Teen Chewing is a research study funded by the National Cancer Institute through the UAMS College of Nursing and the Arkansas Cancer Research Center. Their goal is to help adolescent males quit using spit tobacco (snuff or chewing tobacco). Information on how to quit using spit tobacco as well as the effects of spit tobacco.
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When you're ready to quit, find the resources here that you need to kick the can. Info and support from people who've been there.
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Ginseng chew; claims to be "a truly effective way to quit smokeless tobacco"; no measurements of effectiveness are presented.
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From the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology. Short factsheet covers types of product; prevalence of use; industry advertising and promotion; effects of use; addiction.
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Monograph from the National Cancer Institite. Epidemiology, clinical and pathological effets, carcinogenesis, nitocine effects and addiction, prevention, cessation, policy, and recommendations. All downloadable PDF files.
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Health risks, demographics; resources, info, and research data; how to do an oral cancer self-exam; faces of spit tobacco; tips to quit.
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