Q&A: 'Graphic warnings must be used on tobacco products' Oct 5, 2009
It's particularly important that graphic warnings be used in India, where such a heavy percentage of the population who use beedis and oral tobacco products can't read. Beedi workers are cited as the reason why anti-tobacco legislation doesn't make headway in the country. (India Times, India)
Experts in Government, Public Health, Public Policy and Science Outline Blueprint for Reducing Death and Disease From Tobacco in the United States Feb 25, 2009
In addition, the Dialogue embraced the concept known as the "continuum of risk." This principle unified Dialogue participants with differing views on more controversial issues, such as the appropriate role of oral tobacco products. The Dialogue acknowledged that cigarettes are the most harmful tobacco product and that, under the continuum, medicinal nicotine products such as nicotine gum and patches are less harmful than oral tobacco products ... Recent products offered by the tobacco industry... (PR Newswire)
Help for smokers Feb 17, 2009
The FDA has ruled that these are types of oral tobacco products much like snuff and chew, and are not smoking cessation aids ... Unlike scientifically proven treatments with known effects, such as nicotine replacement products, anti-depressants, nicotine receptor blockers, or behavioral therapy, these oral tobacco products have never been rigorously tested to see if they can help people quit tobacco ... We know that oral tobacco products such as snuff and chewing tobacco contain human... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
