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Don't forget that American tobacco companies all have "snus" products that are actually regular 'dipping' tobacco placed into pouches. Swedish Snus is cold-cur
by strbean 7y ago
Don't forget that American tobacco companies all have "snus" products that are actually regular 'dipping' tobacco placed into pouches.
Swedish Snus is cold-cured, while other dip is heat-cured. It is well established that partial combustion of organic matter creates a bunch of different carcinogens. With cigarettes, you are inhaling partial combustion products from plant matter that has already undergone partial combustion once, and you have astronomical cancer risk. With dip, you are putting partially combusted plant matter in your mouth and have quite high cancer risks. With swedish snus, you are putting zero partial combustion, and no discernible cancer risk.
- Ductapemaster 7y agoI had no idea about the difference - interesting. I thought nicotine itself was a carcinogen though?
- p1necone 7y agoNicotine on its own is no more harmful than caffeine, it's other stuff in tobacco that gets you (and burning it doesn't help). So I'm still skeptical that "cold cured" snus would be safe.
- strbean 7y ago> it's other stuff in tobacco that gets you I think the evidence regarding swedish snus shows that it is far less carcinogenic than traditionally-cured oral tobacco, but still significantly carcinogenic. In particular, swedish snus has very little in the way of nitrosamines [1], a major carcinogenic element of heat-cured tobacco products. RE: harmfulness of nicotine, my impression was that it was a little more harmful to the heart than caffeine. I suppose this would depend on dosage, which is difficult to compare. [1] https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60677-1 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60677-1
- tpudlik 7y agoThat (nicotine carrying non-minimal health risks) is Myth 3 in the linked article. I recommend reading it, it's very informative!