Smokeless tobacco products are more dangerous than cigarettes
In the United States the number of tobacco users and tobacco sales has decreased a lot over the past decade. Many of these ex-smokers haven’t given up the tobacco habit entirely. Instead, many of them have switched to smokeless tobacco products and small cigars.
A group of researchers from Harvard reported that inversion of sales trends is, in large part, due to the high rate by which cigarettes are taxed. A second reason of sale decrease of cigarettes is that anti-tobacco campaigns focus heavily on cigarettes while virtually ignoring other tobacco-based products.
According to the data examined by the Harvard research team people are smoking less each year.
Oral snuff, a widely spread form of chewing tobacco, is becoming increasingly popular in the US due to the conventional belief that smokeless tobacco is less harmful for users’ health.
Cigarette sales dropped but the sale of other tobacco-based products increased. Several tobacco companies saw that smokeless tobacco products have gained a big popularity, that’s why they begin manufacturing snuff products.
According to a study snuff chewers are exposed too much higher levels of dangerous carcinogenic chemicals that can cause pancreatic, lung, liver, and nasal mucosa cancers, than cigarette smokers.
The study examined separate groups of snuff and cigarette users and revealed that oral tobacco was more efficient in delivering potent carcinogenic substances into the human body. The fact is that crewing forms of tobacco supply carcinogens directly into the bloodstream via oral mucosa, while, in smoking, part of carcinogens are neutralized in the respiratory tract of smokers. Consumers use other tobacco-based products because of the high tax rate of cigarettes.
Professor Greg Connolly urged all consumers to understand that tobacco kills, regardless of the form in which it is ingested.
Statistics show that cigarettes are the main cause of people death in United States. Approximately 438,000 of people die in the US each year. The American Heart Association showed that almost 24% of all American men smoke cigarettes while more than 18% of the nations are women.
