Sunday, October 31, 2010

SNUS this?


There it is the new and improved smokeless tobacco. I actually found a website that believes or is whating its readers to believe that this smokeless tobacco is less harmful on you than the traditional cigarettes. Funny Right!! I found it hilarious! However, this website is true is stating that smoking a traditional cigarette causing more harm in smoking it than in using Snus.

"Using modern snus products can reduce the risks of tobacco use by about 90% compared to smoking, is a expert panel saying."




However, go to Camel's website and it states that WARNING: SMOKELESS TOBACCO IS ADDICTIVE. "Snus is spit-free, smoke-free, mess-free, tobacco that comes in a small pouch. Just slide it under your upper lip and enjoy." How is it spit-free... High moisture + low salt content = no spitting.

So even though one is not smoking the carcinogens in traditional cigarettes, one is allowing all of the other ingredients to head directly to the gums and oral cavities.


Researchers at the University of Minnesotta have found that Camel SNUS has lower levels of carcinogens than other smokeless tobacco products. "For example, while the new snus products had levels of benzo(a)pyrene of around 3 micrograms/gram, tradional smokeless tobacco products all had levels above 30, and Kodiak Wintergreen had a level of 57." Which means that each metal tin containing 15 tightly packaged pockets are less toxic than the other leading smokeles products. So buy Camel instead of Kodiak and still end up with oral mouth cancer? Yay! Sounds fun right.

So my theory is not for the moving to smokeless tobacco if quitting is near to one's future, but to the slowly stopping smoking traditional tobacco (cigarettes). By not becoming interested in this products makes a smoker's chances of not acquiring more mouth or oral cancer than what they are already exposed too.

What do you think?

1 comment:

  1. I think this is funny. I have tried that Snus before. I used one (they offered one to me free through coupon). They said you should feel a tingle...well, I felt it alright and did not like it at all. I thought that was a little odd. If I feel a tingle what is in that to make my mouth tingle?

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