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Quit Smokeless Organization - When you're ready to quit, find the resources here that you need to kick the can. Info and support from people who've been there.

ScienceDaily Magazine -- Use Of Smokeless Tobacco May Lead To Breast Cancer, Wake Forest Team Reports - Preliminary results suggest that using smokeless tobacco may dramatically increase the risk of breast cancer, Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers reported.

Smokeless Tobacco Facts - From the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology. Short factsheet covers types of product; prevalence of use; industry advertising and promotion; effects of use; addiction.

Smokeless Tobacco Report: 1998-1999 - The amount spent advertising and promoting spit tobacco hit an all time high in 199 at $1470 million; FTC report breaks it down by year and by type.

Smokeless Tobacco or Health - Monograph from the National Cancer Institite. Epidemiology, clinical and pathological effets, carcinogenesis, nitocine effects and addiction, prevention, cessation, policy, and recommendations. All downloadable PDF files.

Smokeless Tobacco: A Dangerous Habit For Everyone - Article dealing with the health effects of spit tobacco (snuff and dipping tobacco).

Spit Tobacco - Factsheet from the American Academy of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery: what is spit tobacco, what's in it, physical and mental effects, early warning signs of oral cancer, quitting tips, and at the bottom of the page, a highly graphic graphic.

Spit Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Increasing - Nearly $126 million was spent on advertising and promotion for spit tobacco products in 1994, an increase of $6.7 million from 1993.

Spit Tobacco Prevention Network - Health risks, demographics; resources, info, and research data; how to do an oral cancer self-exam; faces of spit tobacco; tips to quit.

Spit Tobacco Prevention Network (STOPN) - Features "the faces of spit tobacco". Also statistics on spit tobacco use, research links, and how to do an oral cancer self-exam.

Spit Tobacco and Oral Health - Alliance of the California Dental Association info on spit tobacco, health consequeneces, quitting spitting, and, if you continue, the importance and how-tos of self-examination.

Spit Tobacco: Especially for Kids - National Cancer Institute pamphlet. Covers product advertising and promotion, myths and truths about spit tobacco, and use in sports.

Spit Tobacco: Know the Score - Fact sheet from the National Oral Information Clearninghouse (NOHIC).

Spit Tobacco: Oral Cancer by the Can - Spit Tobacco is as dangerous as smoking - from the About.com Guide

Spit obacco Hampers Ability To Perform Complex Tasks - The nicotine in spit tobacco reduces an individual's ability to perform complex tasks that require hand and body movements to adjust to new visual feedback, according to new research.

Tobacco Intervention Network - Over 9,000 dentists, hygienists, cessation counselors, physicians, psychologists and other health professionals who want to help their patients quit the use of spit tobacco. How to quit spit tobacco, how health professionals can help their patients quit, news, and posters and videos on the subject.

Tobacco and Baseball: A Dying Tradition - Article on spit tobacco in baseball, with an emphasis on major league baseball.

WebMD: Chewing Tobacco Use Linked to Cavities - Besides gum disease and mouth cancer, spit tobacco causes cavities.

root 100 - Ginseng chew; claims to be "a truly effective way to quit smokeless tobacco"; no measurements of effectiveness are presented.

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