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DenaliDemocrat

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11. Moist snuff is only weakly correlated with oral cancer

Reply to Mz Pip (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 19, 2021, 01:43 PM

Nov 2021

Earlier studies extrapolated data from dry snuff used by women in the south.

The largest study ever done includes over 100,000 Swedish men and followed them for a decade. Modern moist snuff maybe increases the risk of oral cancer by 2. Compared to smoking that has increases it 20 times.

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I thought tobacco products were illegal on the floor. [View all] LiberalArkie Nov 2021 OP

Oh my......a chew?? Wow. 😳 😳 😳 a kennedy Nov 2021 #1

It's not the chew it's the spit... lame54 Nov 2021 #8

Some guys gut it DenaliDemocrat Nov 2021 #10

They make these little pouches now; Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #2

That answers my above question lame54 Nov 2021 #9

He really is one hell of a "guy" isn't he. Geeze, I want one just like him. Not in a million years Biophilic Nov 2021 #3

Well North Carolina is a tobacco state. LiberalArkie Nov 2021 #5

Oral cancer Mz Pip Nov 2021 #4

Google "pictures chewing tobacco mouth cancer" FoxNewsSucks Nov 2021 #6

Moist snuff is only weakly correlated with oral cancer DenaliDemocrat Nov 2021 #11

They also have tobacco-free pouches now madville Nov 2021 #7

Fucking Cawthorn... A HERETIC I AM Nov 2021 #12

It's probably snus, supposedly it's a less harmful version of tobacco consumption liberal_mama Nov 2021 #13