Big Tobacco typically takes a beating in the press, so the positive March 27 Wall Street Journal story about smokeless tobacco was a surprise.
According to the Journal, people trying to kick the smoking habit might try dipping instead because it poses a "substantially reduced health risk compared with smoking."
"Low-nitrosamine smokeless tobacco poses 10% or less of the health risks of cigarettes, according to various studies, including a 2004 National Cancer Institute-funded article," the Journal wrote.
The Journal quoted Michael Thun of the American Cancer Society who said, "There's no question that switching to spit tobacco and quitting tobacco altogether are both far less lethal than continuing to smoke."
Writer Kevin Helliker did not include comment from the tobacco companies, but explained that the industry typically does not comment on scientific reports. Perhaps, because what they say, can and will be held against them?
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Well this is new for me but
November 8, 2007 - 12:10 ET by GordmanWell this is new for me but I don't buy it, smoking is bad for the health, I don't need medics to tell me, I feel it on my body. People who wanna quit should be encouraged to quit.
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Well, while I roll a fresh ci
March 27, 2007 - 18:29 ET by bigtimerWell, while I roll a fresh cigarette, then smoke it...I will have to really give some serious thought to switching to taking up chew!
NOT!
LOL!
The only problem is that I fo
March 27, 2007 - 20:12 ET by mostlymoderateThe only problem is that I found Copenhagen to be extremely addictive and difficult to quit. Obviously, if you are having trouble coughing, breathing, etc. then getting away from smoke is probably a good idea. Just beware, Copenhagen snuff gives you a high that is unbelievable. Once you experience that, it is tough to quit.
Interesting that one of the
March 27, 2007 - 21:47 ET by upcountrywaterInteresting that one of the most obnoxious drug on this planet is STILL legal.
Look at one picture of someon
March 27, 2007 - 22:24 ET by balboaLook at one picture of someone with cancer of the mouth, and you'll never chew tobacco.
go ahead and dip, dipstick
March 27, 2007 - 22:50 ET by judahisWhen I was 13 years old in 1960, my science project was on the link between cancer and smoking. Too bad my parents kept smoking and both died of cancer.
My wife is a journalist and has done stories on kids who develop lip cancer, some of them months to just a few years after using dip. Their faces are eaten up.
So the moral of the story is: What kind of Russian roullette do you want to play, smoking roullette or dipping roulettte. Both are aimed at your life and both deadly. Is this really a "conservative" viewpoint to advocate this stupidity or "Libertarianism.? Kids are stupid enough (I know, I used to be one many suns ago). Why encourage tthem to kill themselves by dipping, when crack cocain, heroin, etc. are just as convenient and more fashionable, I guess?
Not a Democrap or a lip-brawl, mostly a conserve-a-tiff. Famous words of elderly from movie "Moonstruck: "Somebody tell a joke" .
The article is about reduce
March 27, 2007 - 23:20 ET by sarcasmoThe article is about reduced risk, not eliminated risk. (Clearly, only the stupidity is "Libertarian.") Life still isn't a risk free proposition, despite the efforts of all the wonderful politicians who care so much about me -- especially on April 15th. I'm with Bigtimer, it's time for a high tar cig. BTW, tonight's Daily Show is unusually-hilarious...
JMR
Yeah, that is awfully good ne
March 27, 2007 - 23:26 ET by balboaYeah, that is awfully good news: chewing tobacco is less disastrous for your health than cigarettes. Quite an endoresment. It's not exactly granola, either.
Yep. Considering the fact t
March 27, 2007 - 23:32 ET by sarcasmoYep. Considering the fact that a jazz musician in his off time was the only one previously able to point out that particular journalistic obviousity AFAIK, I'd say it's good news that the rest of the media has finally managed to catch up with an obscure musician's blog...
JMR
Please judahis...I gotta list
March 28, 2007 - 10:47 ET by bassndudePlease judahis...I gotta listen to this from my wife, now I gotta take it here? Oh, man! :-(
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Nice theory balboa, it's baloney however.
March 28, 2007 - 10:41 ET by SportPoliticsNice theory balboa, it's baloney however.
Decent people have told the liberal murderers the same thing for decades, and it hasn't worked at all.
" Look at one picture of an aborted baby, and you'll never be pro-choice again. "
I can always count on you to babble balboa. Thanks.
(Strangely enough babloa, you moron, the people that look at a picture of someone with mouth cancer realize that for that single person, tens of thousands of others chew and never develop the same. It's called common sense. Something you people and Al Gore with his AGW hysteria never consider.)
Babblyboa got smart again today - and spewed his genius:
" Look at the remains of one fatal car crash, and you'll never drive again. "
Thus is the extent to which the brain of a liberal functions.
Sheer brilliance. Who could
March 28, 2007 - 13:02 ET by balboaSheer brilliance. Who could argue with such lucid thoughts.
YUCK!
March 27, 2007 - 22:35 ET byYUCK!
"Skoal Brother"
March 28, 2007 - 01:54 ET by Carl KolchakFor those who can remember when you could advertise dipping tobacco on tv, one of the best commercials of all time was with Earl Campbell when he was like spending time on his farm, and he ended the commercial by saying "Skoal Brother". I don't really dip tobacco anymore, but Skoal fine grain was much better than Copenhagen.
They don't make cool commercials like that anymore.
"Skoal Brother" Earl Campbell
Oh damn, now I know I am gett
March 28, 2007 - 04:34 ET by mostlymoderateOh damn, now I know I am getting old. Simply because I remember that commercial. Yup, Earl Campbell #34 of the Houston Oilers saying "just a little pinch between your cheek and gums, and full pleasure".
Oh well, atleast I don't remember any cigarette commercials.
I remember the one with him o
March 28, 2007 - 09:57 ET by balboaI remember the one with him on the beach, and a girl in a bikini jogs by at the end, and he says "I think I'll play some touch."
Carl, Skoal is not better tha
March 28, 2007 - 10:17 ET by bassndudeCarl, Skoal is not better than Copenhagen. Skoal has very little taste, kinda weak even. Made for those who are starting I guess. Jr. High? Copenhagen is much better, lasts longer and you dont dip as much. I go through a can every two or three days, Skoal is a can aday.
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bassndude, I conducted a taste test
March 28, 2007 - 10:36 ET by Carl KolchakFor those who can remember the Coke versus Pepsi blind taste test commercials, well I did a blind taste test between Skoal and Copenhagen. Out of 10 people, all 10 picked Skoal Wintergreen fine grain, and boy were some of them surprised when I revealed that they weren't dipping Copenhagen.
So bassndude, there you have it. Skoal fine grain wintergreen won my blind taste test.
PS, even Hawken is better than Copenhagen.
"I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane" Waylon Jennings
Carl, I use Copenhagen. Tried
March 28, 2007 - 10:42 ET by bassndudeCarl, I use Copenhagen. Tried Skoal before the wintergreening, and after. I still say Skoal is for Jr High girls. I can tell the diffrence between them just by the smell. I love wintergreen mints, but my tobacco, I prefer to taste like tobacco. I used to chew Bull of the Woods. Came in a Plug and was easy to keep on my person and dry in the monsoons, dident smell up the woods.
PS..real men dont spit:-)
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kinda like Chevy versus Ford
March 28, 2007 - 11:31 ET by Carl KolchakI've tried just about all of them, and Copenhagen actually was pretty good, but I kinda thought people chewed it and thought they were also trying to be trendy. In high school the guys who dipped Skoal would always say Skoal was better, and the guys who dipped Copenhagen always said it was better.
PS I was can-thumping champion 4 years running in high school, and probably would have received a D1 scholarship, but I quit dipping tobacco.
"I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane" Waylon Jennings
Carl, yep. Kinda like that. W
March 28, 2007 - 11:53 ET by bassndudeCarl, yep. Kinda like that. What ones personal taste is.
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Ha! Leave it to SportPolitics
March 28, 2007 - 15:33 ET by waka wakaHa! Leave it to SportPolitics and bigtimer to argue for tobacco use. I'm pleased to see the rest of you guys have some common sense. Not everything in life is liberal-conservative, for most of us at least.
Reality has a well known liberal bias.