| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 17 Smokeless Tobacco |
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| Smokeless Tobacco: Low nicotine starter products and |
| "graduated nicotine delivery" |
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| Low nicotine products such as Happy Days and Skoal Bandits are designed as |
| "starter" products. It is expected that as a user becomes more addicted, he will move |
| up to Skoal and finally to Copenhagen. |
| Nicotine Addiction, p. 269 |
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| U.S. Tobacco's "starter" product Skoal Bandits delivers only 7% of its available |
| nicotine; Copenhagen delivers 79%. |
| San Francisco Chronicle, April 1, 1998, p. A16 |
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| Oliver Twist smokeless tobacco comes in five strengths, from Freshman "perfect for |
| beginners" to Senior. |
| Tobacco Control, Spring 1995, p. 75 |
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| Holding an average-size dip or chew in the mouth for half an hour delivers as much |
| nicotine as smoking four cigarettes. A two-can-a-week snuff dipper gets as much |
| nicotine as a pack and a half a day smoker. Each tin of snuff contains a lethal dose of |
| nicotine. |
| Beat the Smokeless Habit, p. 7 |
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| A pinch of snuff has 2 to 3 times the nicotine dose of a cigarette. UST's Copenhagen |
| and Pinkerton's Red Man moist snuff have the highest levels of available nicotine. A |
| user who consumes 8 to 10 dips or chews a day receives a nicotine dose equal to |
| that taken by a smoker of 30 to 40 cigarettes daily. |
| Spit Tobacco and Youth, p. 5 |
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