Tobacco Intervention Network  
   Over 9,000 dentists, hygienists, cessation counselors, physicians, psychologists and other health professionals who want to help their patients quit the use of spit tobacco. How to quit spit tobacco, how health professionals can help their patients quit,
   http://www.quittobacco.com/

AAP - Things You Should Know About Smokeless Tobacco  
   Factsheet from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
   http://www.aap.org/advocacy/chmchew2.htm

Spit Tobacco  
   Factsheet from the American Academy of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery: what is spit tobacco, what's in it, physical and mental effects, early warning signs of oral cancer, quitting tips, and at the bottom of the page, a highly graphic graphic.
   http://www.sinuscarecenter.com/tobchaao.html

AAP: Smokeless Tobacco  
   Some of the ingredients of spit tobacco may surprise you.
   http://www.aap.org/advocacy/chmsmles.htm

National Cancer Institute: Smokeless Tobacco  
   Pamphlet provides facts about spit tobacco, including its health effects.
   http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/TCRB/less_default.html

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of moist snuff in humans  
   Article in scientific journal. Tested several brands of snuff. Measured results in human volunteers. "Large amounts of nicotine were delivered rapidly to the bloodstream".
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/4/387

A girl and her chew: one woman's story of spit tobacco use  
   "I had my first chew just before my 17th birthday...I had been a smoker for over three years at that point...I did quit smoking eventually. Chew proved much harder for me to stop."
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/2/217

Obituary: anti-spit tobacco crusader Bill Tuttle  
   Former major-league baseball player Bill Tuttle died in 1998 after a long battle with oral cancer. His life and death show what spit tobacco does to its customers, and how it's promoted by its manufacturers.
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/4/443

Quit Smokeless Organization  
   When you're ready to quit, find the resources here that you need to kick the can. Info and support from people who've been there.
   http://quitsmokeless.org

National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP)  
   Educational program designed to reduce use of spit tobacco, especially among children. Gassroots efforts to build a nation-wide network of spit tobacco education and cessation resources.
   http://www.nstep.org/

Skoal and Urban Cowboy  
   A 1980 marketing report for Skoal provides an inside look at promotion of spit tobacco; in this report, U.S. Tobacco plans to link its brand to the popular 1980 movie "Urban Cowboy".
   http://www.smokescreen.org/list/det.cfm?listid=66&MessageID=225270&SearchString=

Spit Tobacco, Dental Health, and Cancer  
   Information from the Academy of General Dentistry on effects of spit tobacco; mouth sores; double dippers; addiction; and kicking the habit.
   http://www.agd.org/consumer/topics/tobacco/main.html

What the Tobacco Industry Won't Show You  
   Health poster takes a close look at a fatal mouth cancer caused by spit tobacco.
   http://www.nohic.nidcr.nih.gov/pubs/poster2.htm

Go Ask Alice!: Chewing tobacco risks  
   Overview of plug, leaf, and snuff, and their effects.
   http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/0750.html

Smokeless Tobacco Facts  
   From the University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology. Short factsheet covers types of product; prevalence of use; industry advertising and promotion; effects of use; addiction.
   http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/smokeless.html

CJR - Darts and Laurels, Jan/Feb 95  
   The Columbia Journalism Review is the premier publication on the web about journalism, for journalists; this column summarizes and criticizes several recent news stories on tobacco.
   http://www.cjr.org/year/95/1/d_l.asp

Baseball Players Who Use Spit Tobacco No Better Than Players Who Don't Chew  
   Major league baseball players who use spit tobacco don't hit, pitch, or field better than players who don't use it, according to recent research.
   http://www.ada.org/newsrel/0895/nr04.html

ScienceDaily Magazine -- Use Of Smokeless Tobacco May Lead To Breast Cancer, Wake Forest Team Reports  
   Preliminary results suggest that using smokeless tobacco may dramatically increase the risk of breast cancer, Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers reported.
   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000509003313.htm

Chewing Tobacco Hampers Ability to Perform Complex Tasks  
   The nicotine in spit tobacco reduces an individual's ability to perform complex tasks that require hand and body movements to adjust to new visual feedback, according to new research.
   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/11/991117050042.htm

Smokeless Tobacco Advertising and Promotional Expenditures and Revenues Up, According to FTC Report to Congress  
   An all-time high of $170 million was spent advertising and promoting spit tobacco in 1999; FTC report breaks it down.
   http://www.ftc.gov/reports/tobacco/smokeless98_99.htm

Cancer Control: Smokeless Tobacco  
   Factsheet from the National Cancer Institute covers: seeing past spit tobacco advertising and promotion; myths and truths about spit tobacco; spit tobacco and sports
   http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/less_kids.html

Spit Tobacco Prevention Network  
   Texas coalition working to eliminate spit tobacco use in the state.
   http://www.nospit.com/

Oral Health America: Smokeless Not A Safe Alternative  
   The tacts on spit tobacco, in response to an attempt by U.S. Tobacco to promote its tobacco product as a safe alternative to cigarettes.
   http://www.oralhealthamerica.org/pr09.htm

Baseball Star Bagwell Snuffs Out Spitting Tobacco  
   Jeff Bagwell stops using spit tobacco after pre-cancerous lesions started appearing inside his cheek; story explains.
   http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2001-07-31-bagwell-tobacco.htm

Carcinogens in 5 leading brands of snuff  
   Scientific paper measures levels of carcinogenic N-nitrosamines in 5 leading U.S. brands of moist snuff.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=7494230&dopt=Abstract

Expert Commentary: Dangers Of Chewing Tobacco  
   "Don't be fooled by the label 'smokeless'...the industry would love to have you believe that chewing tobacco and snuff are a safe alternative to cigarettes. In fact, what the medical professionals call 'spit tobacco' is just as addictive -- and just
   http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/21827/24753/184343.html?d=dmtICNNews

Comments to FTC on Smokeless Tobacco  
   Collection of letters and documents submitted to the Federal Trade Commission regarding spit tobacco; covers policy questions, labelling, harm reduction, addiction, ingredients, and effects.
   http://www.ftc.gov/os/comments/tobaccocomments/

Facts You Should Know About Smokeless (Spit) Tobacco  
   Factsheet from Saskatchewan Health. Ingredients, effects, disease, addictive product, quit tips, prevention.
   http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/rr_smokeless_tobacco.html

NIDCR Publications on Spit Tobacco  
   Posters, brochures, and pamphlets on the effects of the product, what it does to young athletes, a guide for quitting, and a graphic look at what the spit tobacco industry won't tell you.
   http://www.nidr.nih.gov/health/newsandhealth/spitTobacco.asp

Spittin' Image  
   Column on spit tobacco in sports.
   http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/magazine/life_of_reilly/news/2002/03/13/life_of_reilly/

In The Know Zone - Spit Tobacco  
   Types of spit tobacco, risks, promotion tricks.
   http://www.intheknowzone.com/tobacco/spit_tobacco.htm

Baseball's Bad Habit  
   Magazine article on spit tobacco, its use in baseball, and how it's promoted.
   http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JA96/broydo.html

ADA, Coalition Ask FTC to Prohibit Smokeless Tobacco Health Claims  
   The ADA joined 40 national health and other organizations in urging the Federal Trade Commission to reject a spit tobacco industry request to claim its product is safer.
   http://www.ada.org/prof/pubs/daily/0202/0228ftc.html

Spit Tobacco: Oral Cancer by the Can  
   Short article outlines the medical facts: half of all oral cancer patients are alive 5 years after diagnosis.
   http://quitsmoking.about.com/library/weekly/aa042699.htm?once=true&

Study Exposes Dangers of Snuff For Smokers to Quit  
   As tobacco companies promote smokeless tobacco as a safer alternative to cigarettes, many smokers who take up snuff in an effort to quit instead end up using both products, warns a researcher. Furthermore, nonsmokers who use snuff are more likely than th
   http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20021024.133604&time=14%2054%20PDT&year=2002&public=1

Kids and Chew  
   Transcript of TV show on kids and spit tobacco in Nebraska explores why teens have been convinced that chew is a safe alternative to cigarettes.
   http://net.unl.edu/swi/pers/kidsandchew.html

Spit Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Increasing  
   2003 FTC report finds that the spit tobacco industry has spent more promoting its product every year since 1987.
   http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/08/smokeless.htm

Spit Tobacco: Does Smokeless Mean Harmless  
   Mayo Clinic article explains why spit tobacco, also known as chew, snuff, or dip, causes addiction, disease, and death just like cigarettes and other tobacco products.
   http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?objectid=BDFA0D03-F8D7-42B2-A8D23038227F0F3A&locID=

Smokeless Tobacco or Health  
   Monograph from the National Cancer Institite. Epidemiology, clinical and pathological effets, carcinogenesis, nitocine effects and addiction, prevention, cessation, policy, and recommendations. All downloadable PDF files.
   http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/2/

Snuff and Loose-leaf have Big Nicotine Doses  
   Tobacco companies keep secret the nicotine levels in their spit tobacco, but independent measurement finds high levels of nicotine and free-base nicotine.
   http://www.hbns.org/news/snuff12-15-03.cfm

Know the Dangers: Mouth Problems  
   The warning signs of mouth cancer.
   http://www.quitnet.com/library/guides/Beat_The_Habit/BTH_Danger.jtml

Native Women's Use of Smokeless Tobacco May Increase Risk of Breast Cancer  
   A study of Cherokee women in the U.S. showed the risk of breast cancer is nearly eight times that of women who do not use smokeless tobacco.
   http://www.oncolink.com/resources/article.cfm?c=3&s=8&ss=23&id=616

Spit Tobacco - It's No Game  
   Outlines chemicals in spit tobacco and diseases it causes.
   http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/tobacco/spit_tobacco.cfm

Spit Tobacco: A Guide for Quitting  
   Put together by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Dental Research, covers health effects of spit tobacco, addiction, myths and truths, quitting, extra help, and resources.
   http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/HealthInformation/OralHealthInformationIndex/SpitTobacco/QuittingGuide/

Spit Tobacco: Know the Score  
   Fact sheet from the National Oral Information Clearinghouse (NOHIC). In .pdf format.
   http://www.regionsix.com/Resource Library/Tobacco/Tobacco-Spit Tobacco-Know the Score.pdf

Tobacco Facts - Spit and Chew Tobacco  
   Factsheet on spit tobacco product, what's in it, and what it does to its customers, featuring the story of Rick Bender.
   http://www.tobaccofacts.org/tob_truth/spit.html

Former Baseball Player Warns Arkansas Teens against "Smokeless" Tobacco  
   Article about a program on "smokeless" tobacco.
   http://www.uams.edu/today/2003/012303/tobacco.htm

MEDLINEplus: Smokeless Tobacco  
   Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokelesstobacco.html

Smokeless Tobacco: Tips on How to Stop  
   Information from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
   http://familydoctor.org/177.xml

Would a Switch from Cigarettes to Smokeless Tobacco Benefit Public Health? No  
   Presents the case against recommending that smokers switch to smokeless tobacco products.
   http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.745/healthissue_detail.asp

Would a Switch from Cigarettes to Smokeless Tobacco Benefit Public Health? Yes  
   Presents the case for recommending that smokers switch to smokeless tobacco products.
   http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.744/healthissue_detail.asp

Smokeless Tobacco and Cancer: Questions and Answers  
   National Cancer Institute FAQ on spit tobacco, health effects, and quitting.
   http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/3_63.htm