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[changeling]

According to Dr. Rodu, a leading pathologist studying cancer and tobacco, it’s the burning and inhaling of tobacco that creates most carcinogens. Many specialists feel that, for health reasons, if you are going to use tobacco, you are better off with a smokeless tobacco, like nasal snuff.

- linked to via a Refinement post.

I know I'd be much happier if the smokers in my life switched to snuff. Far less offensive for those of us around them.


AAAH! MUST GET OFFLINE! HAVE THINGS TO DO! BAGS TO PACK!
I'm going to Rye, where Jess has a holiday house. I'll be there until tomorrow, and we're gonna have us some mad, novel-working-on fun times.

Comments

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Woooo! Rye! And places down that way :D

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

no disrespect, but Baloney.

1. Cancers of the lip, tongue, esophagus, stomache among users of snuff are high enough to put paid to the idea that as long as you don't light it, tobacco can be rather harmless.

2. Both my brothers "chewed". If I could accurately describe to you the feeling of having the lukewarm, slimy contents of an overflowing spittoon wash across your bare feet as you trip over it in the dark on your way to the bathroom at 3.00 am, you would pick the smoky room anyday. People that chew spit. a lot. if they don't have a spittoon to fill to overflowing, they will use whatever is handy. empty beer cans are handy.

you ever see someone's face as they suddenly realize that the "Coors" they are drinking is not, in fact, their beer, but a diabolically planted mimic full of "Juice"?

if you do (see someone's face at that point in their life), RUN. projectile vomiting is just around the corner.

[buhfly.livejournal.com]

We don't really have nasal snuff here. We have chew...but that leads to an inordinant amount of cases of cancer where you lose your lower jaw.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

This snuff website was claiming that snuff is gaining popularity in the States, so it may be there, just hard to find.

(I hate tobacco.)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

It doesn't really affect me either way, as I don't ingest tobacco through snuff, chew (which is pretty much non-existant in Australia, thank God, as it strikes me as pretty foul stuff) or smokes (cigars, cigarettes, pipes).

Frankly, if people are going to ingest tobacco and court cancer, I'd much rather they inhaled via snuff than filled my lungs with smoke, as it sparks my asthma. Perhaps that's selfish, but hey. It's not my bad habit.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Yep. Very exciting!

[buhfly.livejournal.com]

What they need is to make a smokeless tobacco that still burns. They have some brands out that are like 50% less smoke.

*pet*