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Most preparations of chewing tobacco are smoke or fire cured. The process still introduces many of the byproducts that are created during the combustion of drie
by dcolkitt 7y ago
Most preparations of chewing tobacco are smoke or fire cured. The process still introduces many of the byproducts that are created during the combustion of dried organic material.
The most prominent example of chewing tobacco that isn't smoke cured would be Scandinavian-style snus. There's pretty compelling evidence that snus is not associated with oral cancer[1], or at the very least the risk is substantially lower than traditional chewing tobacco.
[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00442.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1360-0443...
- aesclepius 7y agoThere are a few meta-analysis about snus cancer risk. I think generally the opinion [1] is that while lower than other smoke-cured tobaccos, there still exists a non-zero risk for oropharyngeal cancer risk and statistically-valid increase in pancreatic and esophageal cancer risk compared to non-tobacco users. [1](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(08)70173-6/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...)