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Smokeless Tobacco

Sin Taxes Should at Least Reflect Risk

Jeff Stier | Posted 04.01.2013 | Politics
Read More: Smokeless Tobacco, E-Cigarettes, Sin Taxes, Nicotine, Smoking Cessation, Tobacco, Snus, Politics News
Jeff Stier

As the FDA continues to slowly ponder the complicated challenge of regulating tobacco products, other states can follow the leads of Indiana and, hopefully Oklahoma, by embracing the products of innovation to reduce the risk of smoking related diseases.

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John Celock

Big Guns Behind Kansas Smokeless Tobacco Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.30.2012 | Politics
Read More: Lung Cancer, Big Tobacco, Video, Cigarettes, American Cancer Society, Kansas Politics, Julie Hein, Tobacco Cancer, Paul Davis, Smokeless Tobacco, RJ Reynolds, Ron Hein, Chewing-Tobacco-Cancer, Tobacco, Derek Hein, Sean-Gatewood, Oral Cancer, Politics News

Kansas lawmakers are considering a resolution that would require state health officials to conduct a study about the health effects of smokeless tobac...

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Christiana Lilly

High School Kids: Less Puffing, More Dipping

HuffingtonPost.com | Christiana Lilly | Posted 03.02.2012 | Miami
Read More: Teen Smoking, Smokeless Tobacco Use in Miami-Dade, Video, Dipping, Miami-Dade High School Tobacco Use, Smoking, Cigarettes, Florida Department of Health, High School Smoking, MaySarih Ndobe, Karen Rivo, Smokeless Tobacco, Miami Dade Department of Health, Snus, Miami News

MIAMI -- High school students in Miami-Dade County may not be puffing as much, but they’ve turned to chewing and dipping instead. From 2005 to 20...

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Religious Leaders Join Call For Baseball Tobacco Ban

Posted 08.02.2011 | Religion
Read More: Chewing Tobacco, Baseball, Mlb, Major League Baseball, Clergy, Faith United Against Tobacco, Smokeless Tobacco, Tobacco, Religious Leaders, Baseball Players, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Religious leaders are hoping to hit a home run in a campaign to get Major League Baseball players t...

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Chew on This: The Real Dangers of Smokeless Tobacco

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 06.18.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Chewing Tobacco, Baseball, Health, Smokeless Tobacco, Tobacco Industry, Dr. Glenn Braunstein, Tobacco, Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles News
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

Whether tucked in a burly athlete's cheek or daintily positioned in a gentleman's lip, smokeless tobacco has long been a public bane.

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Commissioner: MLB Wants To Ban Smokeless Tobacco

AP | JON KRAWCZYNSKI | Posted 05.31.2011 | Sports
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MINNEAPOLIS — Much to Commissioner Bud Selig's chagrin, chewing tobacco has been almost as much a part of Major League Baseball over the years a...

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Safer Tobacco? Company Claims It's Made A Less Harmful Product

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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RICHMOND, Va. — Tobacco maker Star Scientific Inc. says it has developed a moist smokeless tobacco with lower levels of cancer-causing chemicals...

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Big News For Electronic Cigarettes

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: E Cigarettes, Smokeless Tobacco, E-Cigarettes, Fda E Cigarettes, Fda Electronic Cigarettes, Electronic Cigarettes, Home News

RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court says electronic cigarettes should be regulated as tobacco products by the Food and Drug Administration rathe...

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Baseball Announcer Garagiola's Anti-Chew Campaign May Cause More Harm Than Good

Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Read More: Chew, Nicotine, Major League Baseball, Smokeless Tobacco, Addiction, Harm Reduction, Quitting Smoking, Cancer, Joe Garagiola, Snus, Sports News
Tony Newman

It's easy to be moved by baseball legend Joe Garagiola's anti-tobacco mission, but his campaign may ultimately cause more harm than good.

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