Study Suggests Smokeless Tobacco Safer Than Smoking.

July 30, 2009 at 10:37 am · Filed under Epidemiology, Policy, Surveillance, chronic disease, prevention

Smokeless tobacco products, as used in Europe and North America, do not appear to increase cancer risk. A large meta-analysis has shown that snuff as used in Scandinavia has no discernible effect on the risk of various cancers. Products used in the past in the US may have increased the risk, but any effect that exists now seems likely to be quite small. [BioMed Central (2009, July 29].

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