| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 17 Smokeless Tobacco |
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| Smokeless Tobacco: Historical |
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| In 1761, the British physician John Hill described five cases of nasal cancer that he |
| attributed to nasal snuff use. He wrote "No man should venture upon snuff who is not |
| sure that he is not liable to cancer, and no man can be sure of that". |
| Pediatrics, December 1985, p. 1009 |
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| In the 1800's an American national characteristic was a distended cheek, the |
| identifying mark of the tobacco chewer. In a Lorillard ad, a happy farmer with a swollen |
| jaw exclaims, "It ain't toothache - its Climax." |
| Health Education, June 1987, p. 8 |
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| Charles Dickens wrote in American Notes (1842): "In the hospitals, the students of |
| medicine are requested to eject their tobacco-juice into the boxes provided for that |
| purpose, and not to discolour the stairs." He declared that he could not understand |
| how Americans had won their reputation as riflemen, judging their poor aim when |
| spitting tobacco. Another British writer sardonically commented that the national |
| American symbol should not be the bald eagle, but rather the spittoon. |
| Health Education, June 1987, p. 8 |
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| "At the turn of the century, it was discovered that tuberculosis was transmitted through |
| expectoration, and the practice of chewing and spitting quickly became socially |
| unacceptable and illegal in many public places. With the invention of the |
| cigarette-rolling machine, it was possible to produce a cheap new tobacco product. |
| By the early 1920's, cigarettes had replaced smokeless tobacco. Per capita |
| consumption of cigarettes in the United States rose dramatically, from 50 cigarettes |
| per year in 1900 to 4200 by 1965." |
| NEJM, May 12, 1988, p. 1281 |
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