Estimation of available nicotine content of six smokeless tobacco products

The acrylamide content of smokeless tobacco products

BACKGROUND There is considerable interest from a regulatory and public health perspective in harmful and potentially harmful constituents in tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco products (STPs). A wide range of commercial STPs from the US and Sweden, representing 80-90 % of the 2010 market share for all the major STP categories in these two countries, were analysed for the IARC Group 2...

Health Effects of Smokeless Tobacco Products

Three independent non-food Scientific Committees provide the Commission with the scientific advice it needs when preparing policy and proposals relating to consumer safety, public health and the environment. The Committees also draw the Commission's attention to the new or emerging problems which may pose an actual or potential threat. SCENIHR Questions concerning emerging or newly-identified r...

SMOKELESS TOBACCO SMOKELESS TOBACCO 1. Description of Smokeless Tobacco Practices

Nicotine delivery capabilities of smokeless tobacco products and implications for control of tobacco dependence in South Africa.

OBJECTIVES Smokeless tobacco (SLT) use is popular among black South African women and children. The study sought to determine the nicotine delivery capability of popular industrialised and traditional SLT brands in South Africa, and to provide information for policy action by regulatory authorities. DESIGN Laboratory chemical analysis of four industrialised and one traditional SLT products co...

Systemic absorption and effects of nicotine from smokeless tobacco.

Nicotine is absorbed in substantial quantities from smokeless tobacco and could contribute to the adverse consequences of smokeless tobacco use. Chronic systemic exposure to nicotine could contribute to accelerated coronary artery disease, acute cardiac ischemic events, and hypertension. Systemic absorption of sodium and mutagenic chemicals from smokeless tobacco could aggravate hypertension or...