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I think this needs to be said....if not then I am sure a mod will let me know.

I have gone back through all the threads you have started and have come to the conclusion that your goal for this forum is to stir the pot. You have been here long enough to know that nicotine is the most benign ingredient in smokes and ALL smokeless products. If you really and truly haven't accepted or can't accept that fact yet then I can only assume that you will never accept it.

I have also come to the conclusion that you WANT to find something deadly with vaping. You constantly dig up things that have been talked to death but it seems to me that you just read the headlines and never the rebuttal. You come in and start a thread such as this and I wonder if you ever even come back to read the answers to your questions. If that is the case then I have just wasted my time :facepalm:

If I am way off base and it is just in your nature to worry yourself to death then I feel sorry for you. That can't be a comfortable way to be.
This is spot on with the postings.
 

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The claims are overblown, just as they are with virtually everything else associated with nicotine use.

Even CASAA acknowledges that smokeless tobacco is a preferable harm reduction product when compared to cigarettes.

So yes. The overblown claims that your face is going to get cancer because you chew is a lie.

Edited to add:

There's even a news report today claiming that your house dust can cause cancer.

Before we know it, the government is going to have to put the brakes on living because everything we eat, breath or touch is going to be discovered as a cancer causing agent.

Phooey.
Chasing a non existent tail, smoke and mirrors is all they have.

They're covering up what our western life style and diet does to us to protect those that fund the govt and media.

Meanwhile, civilizations across the globe adopt our western diet and within just a few short years their health as a community starts fading at a dramatic pace.

And people across the globe are posting on their youtube channels their "ailments" they've "cured" with Gerson therapy, fully raw diets, paleo diets, ketogenic diets, elimination diets, just eliminating wheat and/or grains, cutting sugars and preservatives, eliminating soda, etc., etc.

I don't doubt that any small, prolonged irritation could result in cancer in a society that's vastly over fed yet grossly malnourished and dehydrated constantly.

Matter of fact, I'd wager on it.

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I think this needs to be said....if not then I am sure a mod will let me know.

I have gone back through all the threads you have started and have come to the conclusion that your goal for this forum is to stir the pot. You have been here long enough to know that nicotine is the most benign ingredient in smokes and ALL smokeless products. If you really and truly haven't accepted or can't accept that fact yet then I can only assume that you will never accept it.

I have also come to the conclusion that you WANT to find something deadly with vaping. You constantly dig up things that have been talked to death but it seems to me that you just read the headlines and never the rebuttal. You come in and start a thread such as this and I wonder if you ever even come back to read the answers to your questions. If that is the case then I have just wasted my time :facepalm:

If I am way off base and it is just in your nature to worry yourself to death then I feel sorry for you. That can't be a comfortable way to be.
Maybe Mom locked the computer..
 

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This is from the very article you chose to link to:

"In pressing the case for more stringent regulation of smokeless tobacco, a National Cancer Institute physician last week testified before Congress that smokeless-tobacco products can multiply users' risk of oral cancer by up to 50 times. The American Cancer Society followed up with a similar statement. But as Brad Rodu, professor of oncology at the University of Louisville whose research is funded by the tobacco industry, pointed out in a blog post this week, the risk figure is based on a survey of individuals who had used a form of tobacco called dry snuff, which is inhaled through the nose—a product that now is little used.


Peter Shields, deputy director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University, looked at several studies on smokeless tobacco risk and concluded that smokeless tobacco raises the risk of oral cancer by three to 10 times compared with nontobacco users, rather than 50 times."

So yeah, dip causing mouth cancer is a lie. What part of 3 to 10 times the risk of oral cancer compared to nontobacco users do you believe is in dispute?
There is lots of studies out there on smokeless tobacco (both american style dip and chew, and Swedish snus) and the general consensus by unbiased researchers is that smokeless tobacco is about 99% less harmful then cigarettes, plus or minus 1%. The three major risk factors for oral cancer are smoking, excessive alcohol, and HPV. Smokeless tobacco doesn't even make it on the list of risk factors.

The reason it was suspected that vaping could be a low risk alternative to smoking when vaping first showed up is because it was already known that without combustion Nicotine (and tobacco) has very little risk. It is the smoke that kills, not nicotine and not tobacco.

There are decades of studies on Swedish snus and they have not been able to find any connection to oral cancer. Snus users have essentially the same health outcomes as none tobacco users. The is little to no difference in risk from dip and snus. Both have vanishingly low risk.

It is a myth that smokeless tobacco is a major (or even minor) risk factor for oral cancer. Smokeless tobacco has essentially the same low risk factor as we hope vaping has. It unfortunate that the same people who fight tooth and nail to dispel the lies about vaping, are all to willing to spread lies about other low risk alternatives to smoking.
 

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Snus are NOT dip.
It is pretty close, and if you look at the actually studies (as opposed to going along with the common myths that are coming out from the same people who are demonizing vaping) what is found is that the risk factors between dip and snus are essentially the same, meaning little to none.
 

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I tried Marlboro Snus for a while when I was trying to quit but it said right on the package how unsafe they were and to me it just was not a good alternative to smoking. I wish I could find where I stashed a boatload of them I got for FREE from Marlboro for buying cigarettes. Then I could post a picture of the Surgeon Generals warning.
 

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Aw, SteveWS45. The FDA wants mfg.'s to put on their juice labels for 0 nic that it contains tobacco. Since every item, every piece of a mod setup is now "deemed" tobacco, wouldn't the Surgeon Generals use the very same warning against them?

I've learned a great deal during my vaping journey. A major and distressing part of that attained knowledge is to never again trust the FDA, CDC or any part of government bureaucracy. I do a lot of research now and try to find who is doing the major funding of the studies.
 

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I tried Marlboro Snus for a while when I was trying to quit but it said right on the package how unsafe they were and to me it just was not a good alternative to smoking. I wish I could find where I stashed a boatload of them I got for FREE from Marlboro for buying cigarettes. Then I could post a picture of the Surgeon Generals warning.
As others have stated Nicotine does not cause cancer but all the other chemicals in smokeless tobacco do cause cancer from what I have heard for years. Also I know people who died from chewing tobacco who never smoked a cigarette in their entire lives. Here are some links for your reading pleasure? Maybe not pleasurable.

Health Risks of Smokeless Tobacco

Smokeless Tobacco and Cancer

Well gee Steve, do you mean I should ignore the decades of studies showing little to no risk from western style smokeless tobacco, and believe what the American Cancer society is telling us, the same group that has been on a holy terror trying to demonize and ban vaping. Sounds like a plan.

I am not at all surprised that when a thread like this shows up in a vaping forum, lots of bad information on ST shows up. What it really shows is how successful the tobacco control industry has been in brainwashing people into believing ST has any kind of significant risk. An even more negative side of this is how isolated many in the vaping world have become. You really have to be trying pretty hard to claim to be involved with tobacco harm reduction and not have a clue about how low risk smokeless tobacco is.
 

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    I think this needs to be said....if not then I am sure a mod will let me know.

    I have gone back through all the threads you have started and have come to the conclusion that your goal for this forum is to stir the pot. You have been here long enough to know that nicotine is the most benign ingredient in smokes and ALL smokeless products. If you really and truly haven't accepted or can't accept that fact yet then I can only assume that you will never accept it.

    I have also come to the conclusion that you WANT to find something deadly with vaping. You constantly dig up things that have been talked to death but it seems to me that you just read the headlines and never the rebuttal. You come in and start a thread such as this and I wonder if you ever even come back to read the answers to your questions. If that is the case then I have just wasted my time :facepalm:

    If I am way off base and it is just in your nature to worry yourself to death then I feel sorry for you. That can't be a comfortable way to be.
    You have not wasted your time, mattiem. The rest of us need to know all of that too. :)
     
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    I'm with you. You can certainly manage your risks but worrying about it doesn't help and doesn't make your life any more enjoyable. Those numbers are rather scary though
    Worry, and stress may themselves cause cancer There are definitely links between prolonged high stress levels, and increased risk for heart attacks, and stroke.
     
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    SteveS45

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    Well gee Steve, do you mean I should ignore the decades of studies showing little to no risk from western style smokeless tobacco, and believe what the American Cancer society is telling us, the same group that has been on a holy terror trying to demonize and ban vaping. Sounds like a plan.

    I am not at all surprised that when a thread like this shows up in a vaping forum, lots of bad information on ST shows up. What it really shows is how successful the tobacco control industry has been in brainwashing people into believing ST has any kind of significant risk. An even more negative side of this is how isolated many in the vaping world have become. You really have to be trying pretty hard to claim to be involved with tobacco harm reduction and not have a clue about how low risk smokeless tobacco is.

    @Stubby you can do what ever you would like to do but the opinions expressed are my own personal feelings and no where and in no way tell anyone to do anything like ignore any studies. Freedom of choice is available.
     
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