Regular tobacco use, including chewing tobacco, can lead to consequences for your life, health, and loved ones. It is important to think long-term when it comes to your health.

Like chewing tobacco, also known as oral or spit tobacco, users keep moist snuff between their lower lip and gums. Dry snuff is a powder that's sniffed/inhaled up into the nose.

Smokeless tobacco -- with high amounts of nicotine -- may be a more realistic alternative. Sweden has developed a safer, less toxic kind of smokeless tobacco called "snus," and sales are booming.

In India, for example, 6% of men and 0.5% of women in 2016-2017 were dual users of both smoked and smokeless tobacco, compared with 23% of men and 12% of women who only used smokeless tobacco.

These TSNAs can cause cancer of the lungs, nasal tract, mouth, and esophagus. A recent analysis noted that people who used smokeless tobacco products had around a 34% higher risk of oral cancer.

The odds ratio for hypopharyngeal cancers was 2.85 among tobacco snuff users, which increased to 3.34, 3.58 and 4.59 among those chewing tobacco in the form of pan, zarda and guthka, respectively.

Adults who had never used smokeless tobacco were also found to be almost 10 times more likely to develop AMD compared with those who had never used smokeless tobacco in an unadjusted model ...

A smokeless tobacco company has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a man who died of mouth cancer in what the family's attorney and an expert called the first wrongful death settlement from ...

The largest such award, $28 billion, came Oct. 4 in California. But only about 50 claims have been filed against smokeless tobacco companies since the early 1950s, UST executives said.

Because nicotine pouches don’t have tobacco, they may be safer than snus and other smokeless tobacco products, which can cause: Cancers of the mouth, throat, and pancreas Gum disease Tooth loss ...