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'Man without a face' to talk on results of chewing tobacco - "As a 12-year-old Little Leaguer, Rick Bender tried his first plug of chewing tobacco, emulating his major-league heroes. At age 26, he was diagnosed with oral cancer. He underwent four surgeries over the next two years and lost one-third of his tongue, half of his jaw and partial use of his right arm. Since then, Bender has dedicated his life to educating people about the dangers of spit tobacco."
 
A girl and her chew: one woman's story of spit tobacco use - "I had my first chew just before my 17th birthday...I had been a smoker for over three years at that point...I did quit smoking eventually. Chew proved much harder for me to stop."
 
AAP - Things You Should Know About Smokeless Tobacco - Factsheet from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
 
AAP: Smokeless Tobacco - Some of the ingredients of spit tobacco may surprise you.
 
Addicted to Dipping - WebMD article. Covers prevalence, effects. Joe Garagiola tells baseball players, "You lose your face one piece at a time until you are dead."
 
Antigutkha Crusade - Dr. Kalyan Gangwal is fighting addiction among young children to guthka, a sweetened mixture of tobacco, betel and catechu.
 
Baseball Players Who Use Spit Tobacco No Better Than Players Who Don't Chew - Major league baseball players who use spit tobacco don't hit, pitch, or field better than players who don't use it, according to recent research.
 
Baseball Star Bagwell Snuffs Out Spitting Tobacco - Jeff Bagwell stops using spit tobacco after pre-cancerous lesions started appearing inside his cheek; story explains.
 
CJR - Darts and Laurels, Jan/Feb 95 - The Columbia Journalism Review is the premier publication on the web about journalism, for journalists; this column summarizes and criticizes several recent news stories on tobacco.
 
Carcinogens in 5 leading brands of snuff - Scientific paper measures levels of carcinogenic N-nitrosamines in 5 leading U.S. brands of moist snuff.
 
FTC: 1997 Smokeless Tobacco Report - Numbers on how much the industry makes on the product, how much it spends promoting the product.
 
Go Ask Alice!: Chewing tobacco risks - Overview of plug, leaf, and snuff, and their effects.
 
Health-Center: Chewing Tobacco - How cigarettes and spit tobacco are similar and different.
 
Hopkins Q&A: Dangers of Chewing Tobacco - "Don't be fooled by the label 'smokeless'...the industry would love to have you belief that chewing tobacco and snuff are a safe alternative to cigarettes. In fact, what the medical professionals call 'spit tobacco' is just as addictive -- and just as likely to cause cancer and heart disease -- as cigarettes smoking." The facts.
 
Learning Center: Smokeless Tobacco - What is it, what are its health effects, does it contain enough nicotine to be addictive, how is it promoted.
 
National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP) - Educational program designed to reduce use of spit tobacco, especially among children. Gassroots efforts to build a nation-wide network of spit tobacco education and cessation resources.
 
Obituary: anti-spit tobacco crusader Bill Tuttle - Former major-league baseball player Bill Tuttle died in 1998 after a long battle with oral cancer. His life and death show what spit tobacco does to its customers, and how it's promoted by its manufacturers.
 
Oral Cancer - Oral Cancer information on treatment, prevention, diagnosis, email groups, support groups, personal stories.
 
PATCH Project - Program Against Teen Chewing is a research study funded by the National Cancer Institute through the UAMS College of Nursing and the Arkansas Cancer Research Center. Their goal is to help adolescent males quit using spit tobacco (snuff or chewing tobacco). Information on how to quit using spit tobacco as well as the effects of spit tobacco.
 
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of moist snuff in humans - Article in scientific journal. Tested several brands of snuff. Measured results in human volunteers. "Large amounts of nicotine were delivered rapidly to the bloodstream".
 
 
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