| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 17 Smokeless Tobacco |
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| Smokeless Tobacco: General |
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| Each year in the United States, about 824,000 young people 11 to 19 years of age |
| experiment with smokeless tobacco (2200 each day first trying it), and 304,000 (830 |
| each day) become regular users. |
| American Journal of Public Health, January 1998, pp. 20-26 |
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| Cigar and pipe smoking has declined by 80% in the last 20 years. In the same period, |
| use of smokeless tobacco by adolescent males has increased by 450% for chewing |
| tobacco and by 1500%, or fifteen-fold, for snuff. From 1978 to 1984, there was a 15% |
| compound annual growth rate in U.S. smokeless tobacco sales. |
| Spit Tobacco and Youth, p. B1 |
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| 30% of all male high school seniors in the southeastern United States are regular |
| smokeless tobacco users. |
| Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, September 18, 1992, p. 699 |
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| 12 million Americans are "dippers" or "spitters" - regular users of smokeless tobacco |
| (snuff and chewing tobacco). Three million of this group are under age 21. Use in |
| children and adolescents doubled between 1970 and 1986. |
| NEJM, May 12, 1988, p. 1281 |
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| In 1990 in the states of Tennessee, Alabama, Montana, Colorado, and Wyoming, 31 |
| to 34% of males in grades 9 through 12 were users of smokeless tobacco. |
| Spit Tobacco and Youth, Dept of Health and Human Services, 1992, p. 3 |
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| In the states of Alabama, Idaho, South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, |
| more adolescent males use smokeless tobacco than smoke cigarettes. |
| 1994 Surgeon General report, p. 97 |
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