smokeless tobacco
noun
: pulverized or shredded tobacco chewed or placed between cheek and gum : snuff
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While the taste isn’t exactly like smokeless tobacco, Smokey Mountain creators have created a very similar product that is a great alternative for those who are looking to remove tobacco and nicotine from their lives.
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Larry Carroll, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
According to the campaign, 16 other Major League Baseball teams are governed by city or state policies that bar the use of smokeless tobacco including Washington, D.C., and New York City.
—Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
While most major league stadiums have policies against smoking, smokeless tobacco (which still sees use particularly among baseball players) is often not banned.
—Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
In testimony before the council’s Health, Environment, and Technology committee last month, Kevin O’Flaherty, an advocacy director for the campaign, said tobacco companies receive free advertising every time a baseball player uses smokeless tobacco during a broadcast game.
—Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
Meanwhile, in the first two weeks of January, US sales of smokeless tobacco and nicotine products jumped 12% while cigarette sales sank 10%.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
This includes e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and vaporizers.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
And in January, a study suggested that smokeless tobacco increases the risk of peripheral artery disease to a similar extent as does cigarette use.
—Anthony King, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
This process happens whether nicotine is inhaled from a cigarette or an e-cigarette, or chewed in the case of smokeless tobacco.
—Anthony King, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
Larry Carroll, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
According to the campaign, 16 other Major League Baseball teams are governed by city or state policies that bar the use of smokeless tobacco including Washington, D.C., and New York City.
—Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
While most major league stadiums have policies against smoking, smokeless tobacco (which still sees use particularly among baseball players) is often not banned.
—Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
In testimony before the council’s Health, Environment, and Technology committee last month, Kevin O’Flaherty, an advocacy director for the campaign, said tobacco companies receive free advertising every time a baseball player uses smokeless tobacco during a broadcast game.
—Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
Meanwhile, in the first two weeks of January, US sales of smokeless tobacco and nicotine products jumped 12% while cigarette sales sank 10%.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
This includes e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and vaporizers.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
And in January, a study suggested that smokeless tobacco increases the risk of peripheral artery disease to a similar extent as does cigarette use.
—Anthony King, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
This process happens whether nicotine is inhaled from a cigarette or an e-cigarette, or chewed in the case of smokeless tobacco.
—Anthony King, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
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