i don't know any personally. if you do know someone, give details like how many years did they dip, how much did they dip? brand?
i really enjoy it. a can of redseal last me 3 days.
smoking, i know many people who died from it.
-Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States.
-Cigarette smoking causes an estimated 443,000 deaths each year,
(including approximately 49,000 deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke).
-Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women in the United States,
and 90 percent of lung cancer deaths among men
and approximately 80 percent of lung cancer deaths among women are due to smoking.
-Smoking causes many other types of cancer, including cancers of the throat, mouth,
nasal cavity, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix, and acute myeloid leukemia.
-People who smoke are up to six times more likely to suffer a heart attack than nonsmokers,
and the risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked.
Smoking also causes most cases of chronic lung disease.
What If All Smokers Had Used Smokeless Instead?
Lee and Hamling also calculated how smokeless tobacco use might have changed cancer deaths among American men.
In 2005, 142,205 men in the U.S. died from the 7 cancers associated with smoking.
If no American men had ever smoked, there would have been only 37,468 cancer deaths,
so 104,737 were directly attributable to smoking.
Using the RRs above, Lee and Hamling calculated the number of cancer deaths that would have occurred
if all smokers had instead used smokeless tobacco.
The number attributable to smokeless tobacco would have been 1,102,
which is only 1.1% of the deaths currently attributable to smoking. Source
Much of the available data on smokeless tobacco comes from Sweden.
There, men gradually have cut down on smoking and increased their use of snus,
a form of moist snuff that doesn't require spitting, in a shift that began in the 1970s.
Lung-cancer deaths among Swedish men peaked in 1978; since then,
the death rate has declined to the lowest in the European Union. Source
The meta-analysis of North American and Scandinavian research
did find a 36% increased risk of oropharyngeal cancer and a 29% increased risk of prostate cancer.
However, the risk of oropharyngeal cancer disappeared in studies published after 1990
and in the Scandinavian research, Peter Lee and Jan Hamling of PN Lee Statistics
and Computing reported online in BMC Medicine.
Lee concluded. Source"Any effect of smokeless tobacco on risk of cancer, if it exists at all,
is quantitatively very much smaller than the known effects of smoking,"
I've always thought the risk of smoking was all the other stuff they add to the tobacco, not the tobacco itself.