Fact: The three best selling brands of snuff, Copenhagen, Skoal fine cut, and Kodiak, have statistically significant higher levels of nicotine than do Hawken and Skoal Bandits, the number four and five brands. The higher nicotine snuff also has a higher pH enabling enhanced absorption of nicotine. .

Fact: Among high school seniors who have ever tried smokeless tobacco, 73% did so by the ninth grade (age 14).

Fact: Snuff-dippers may be exposed to more N-nitrosamines (shown in a number of laboratory studies to be powerful cancer causing chemicals) than a one-pack-a-day cigarette smoker.

Fact: In 2001, $219 million was spent to advertise moist and dry snuff and about $18 million was spent to advertise chewing tobacco

Fact: 2001 smokeless tobacco advertising in magazines increased to a record high of $21.96 million

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Why is it important for me to quit using smokeless tobacco?

The use of any tobacco product has both immediate and long-term effects on your health and overall well-being. Smokeless tobacco stains and wears down your teeth, causes your gums to recede (peel back) and produces mouth sores. Bad breath is also a common problem. Over time, the use of smokeless tobacco can cause mouth cancer. Nicotine from smokeless tobacco also raises blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and can make it more likely that you will have a heart attack.

It is important for you to have your own reasons for wanting to quit using smokeless tobacco. In addition to health effects, you may be concerned about saving money or setting a good example for family members and friends. Write down your reasons for wanting to quit using smokeless tobacco. Then keep your list in places where you can see it often during your efforts to quit.

Why is it hard to quit using smokeless tobacco?

Like cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (snuff or chewing tobacco) contains nicotine, a very addictive substance that causes changes in the way you think and act. If you are addicted to nicotine, you crave the "buzz" you get from using smokeless tobacco, and you have to use more and more to get the effect you want.

Smokeless tobacco puts more nicotine into your bloodstream than cigarettes do. This is one reason why people who chew or dip tobacco regularly may think that quitting smokeless tobacco is even harder than quitting cigarette smoking.

Using smokeless tobacco might also be a habit for you when you're in certain situations or with certain people. For example, you may always chew tobacco when you go to a sporting event or when you watch TV. It can be hard to break this pattern of behavior.

However, many smokeless tobacco users have quit successfully – and so can you. Your family doctor can help you quit.

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Seeing past smokeless tobacco advertising and promotion

The makers of smokeless tobacco spend a lot of money to advertise and promote their products because the more people who use smokeless tobacco and the more smokeless tobacco each person uses, the more money they make. Promotional strategies, including free sampling, sponsorships, and coupons, are a large part of advertising. In 2001, $219 million was spent to advertise moist and dry snuff and about $18 million was spent to advertise chewing tobacco. 7 (It's the tobacco companies' job to get you to use smokeless tobacco and keep on using it.)

A Federal Trade Commission Report released in 2003, shows that in 2001 smokeless tobacco advertising in magazines increased to a record high of $21.96 million. 7 The spending for distribution of free samples of smokeless tobacco products also reached a record high of $17.89 million in 2001.7

Myth:	Smokeless tobacco is a safe alternative to cigarettes.
Truth:	Just because there is no smoke, doesn't mean that smokeless tobacco is safe. Smokeless tobacco can cause cancer and a whole bunch of other bad health effects.
Myth:	Smokeless tobacco makes you a better athlete.
Truth:	No way. You may feel like you can perform better in sports, but you don't because you can't. Studies have shown that athletes who use smokeless tobacco don't play better or move faster.
Myth:	You can use a little smokeless tobacco and not get hooked.
Truth:	Even a little smokeless tobacco has enough nicotine in it to get you addicted if you keep using it. Don't be fooled by thinking you can use just a little and not get addicted.
Myth:	Because baseball players and other sports figures use smokeless tobacco, it's OK for you to use it, too.
Truth:	The baseball players who use smokeless tobacco say they want to quit, but they're hooked. They didn't know when they started using smokeless tobacco that they wouldn't be able to quit or that using smokeless tobacco is bad for your health.
Myth:	Since most people use smokeless tobacco and other tobacco, you might as well too.
Truth:	Actually, most people do not use tobacco but kids tend to think more people use tobacco than actually do. When you see so much advertising, smokeless tobacco for sale on the store counters, a lot of people who use smokeless tobacco, you may think most people use it but they don't.
Myth:	Since smokeless tobacco is sold in stores in the United States where kids shop and in areas where kids go, kids can buy smokeless tobacco.
Truth:	It is illegal to sell smokeless tobacco or any other kind of tobacco, including cigarettes and cigars to anyone under the age of 18. The Food and Drug Administration requires that sellers of tobacco ask for identification that includes the birthdate and picture of the person trying to buy tobacco to make sure they are not selling to people under 18 years.
Myth:	Even if you use smokeless tobacco, you can quit any time you want.
Truth:	Kids overrate their ability to be able to quit. The truth is that if you're hooked, it isn't easy to quit. But you can do it!

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