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Smokeless Tobacco

Last Updated on May 13, 2019
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Smokeless Tobacco

There are two types of smokeless tobacco - snuff and chewing tobacco.

Chewed tobacco The leaves are usually shredded, twisted or bricked and placed between the cheek and gum and then chewed with lime and it is the oldest way of consuming tobacco leaves. Smokeless tobacco is sometimes called "spit" or "spitting" tobacco because people spit out the tobacco juices and saliva that build up in the mouth.

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Pan masala, or betel quid consists of tobacco, areca nuts and staked lime wrapped in a betel leaf. They can also contain other sweetenings and flavouring agents. Snuff is a kind of finely ground tobacco that often comes in teabag-like sachets that users "pinch" or "dip" between their lower lip and gum. It is also known as "Scotch Snuff", because of the scorching process used to dry the cured tobacco.

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Resh69

simply cigarettes contains nicotine as a base cpd. It is highly soluble in water and basic compound. In avoid smoking, take slightly base cpd.

RAYMONDPHILIP

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Pinea

Why do we blame people who smoke? Why can't we blame the producers! The manufacturers itself! And the POLITICIANS for allowing cigars, tobacco, cigarettes to be sold by the GOVERNMENT! Damn people!

guest

They sell because people are crazy enough to go buy something that you know has harmful materials in it. You would not even dare to lick arsenic or cyanide...so why inhale it? Get some willpower and don't succumb to the government.

faithey001

i know this is got nothing to do with this but my uncle died of lung cancer and he didn't do anything like smoke to

guest

In oprder to get lung cancer you only need to inhale somebody else smoke from their cigarettes; Secondhand smoke kills at least 3,000 people in the USA everyear.

stanley22

all of us know smoking is dangerous instead of giving suggesion tell people how to get out of that.give such priliminary stages that can be followed by d smoker.......

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