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Cessation attempts in dual users (smoking plus smokeless): findings from two states in India

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Concurrent use of smoking and smokeless tobacco products is common, but little is known regarding the association of smokeless tobacco use with smoking cessation.
Rajmohan Panda, Divya Persai
doaj   +1 more source

State-Specific Patterns of Cigarette Smoking, Smokeless Tobacco Use, and E-Cigarette Use Among Adults — United States, 2016

Preventing Chronic Disease, 2019
Introduction State-level monitoring of changes in tobacco product use can help inform tobacco control policy and practice. This study examined state-specific prevalence of cigarette, smokeless tobacco, and e-cigarette use among US adults.
S. S. Hu, D. Homa, Teresa W. Wang, Yessica Gomez, Kimp Walton, Hua Lu, L. Neff   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Regulating smokeless tobacco and processed areca nut in South-East Asia region: The journey so far and the road ahead

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2017
South-East Asia Region (SEAR) has more smokeless tobacco users as compared to smokers. The growing prevalence and cultural acceptance of consumption of flavored areca nut and related products, for example, supari and pan masala in many countries are ...
Jagdish Kaur, Thaksaphon Thamarangsi, Arvind Vashishta Rinkoo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Oral health consequences of smokeless tobacco use

The Indian journal of medical research, 2018
Smokeless tobacco (SLT) use has many oral effects including oral cancer, leukoplakia and erythroplakia, oral submucous fibrosis (if mixed with areca nut), loss of periodontal support (recession) and staining of teeth and composite restorations.
Arvind Muthukrishnan, S. Warnakulasuriya
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Association of tobacco use with periodontal status and salivary biomarkers (thiocyanate and pH) among construction workers: a cross-sectional study

Saudi Dental Journal
The study aimed to assess and compare the periodontal status, salivary thiocyanate levels and salivary pH among non-tobacco users, smoked tobacco users and smokeless tobacco users.
Praneetha Rani, Shivaprasad, Abhijith Shetty, Shilpa Levingston   +3 more
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Smokeless tobacco (paan and gutkha) consumption, prevalence, and contribution to oral cancer

Epidemiology and Health, 2017
Smokeless tobacco consumption, which is widespread throughout the world, leads to oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF), which is a long-lasting and devastating condition of the oral cavity with the potential for malignancy.
K. Niaz, Faheem Maqbool, Fazlullah Khan, Haji Bahadar, Fatima Ismail Hassan, M. Abdollahi   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Smokeless tobacco, sport and the heart

Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases, 2015
Smokeless tobacco (snuff) is a finely ground or shredded tobacco that is sniffed through the nose or placed between the cheek and gum. Chewing tobacco is used by putting a wad of tobacco inside the cheek. Smokeless tobacco is widely used by young athletes to enhance performance because nicotine improves some aspects of physiology.
Chagué, Frédéric, Guenancia, Charles, Gudjoncik, Aurélie, Moreau, Daniel, Cottin, Yves, Zeller, Marianne   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Urinary Biomarkers of Carcinogenic Exposure Among Cigarette, Waterpipe and Smokeless Tobacco Users and Never Users of Tobacco in the Golestan Cohort Study

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 2019
Background: How carcinogen exposure varies across users of different, particularly noncigarette, tobacco products remains poorly understood. Methods: We randomly selected 165 participants of the Golestan Cohort Study from northeastern Iran: 60 never ...
A. Etemadi, H. Poustchi, Cindy M. Chang, B. Blount, A. Calafat, Lanqing Wang, Víctor R. De Jesús, A. Pourshams, Ramin Shakeri, M. Shiels, M. Inoue-Choi, Bridget K. Ambrose, Carol H. Christensen, Baoguang Wang, G. Murphy, Xiaoyun Ye, Deepak Bhandari, June Feng, B. Xia, C. Sosnoff, F. Kamangar, P. Brennan, P. Boffetta, S. Dawsey, C. Abnet, R. Malekzadeh, N. Freedman   +26 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Site Specific Effect of Tobacco Addiction in Upper Aerodigestive Tract Tumors: A Retrospective Clinicopathological Study

The Scientific World Journal, 2014
An institutional study was carried out in 102 patients to investigate the site specific effect of addictions, that is, tobacco smoking and tobacco chewing (smokeless), both independently and synergistically in development of malignancies in upper ...
Ashok Kumar, Amita Sharma, Babita Ahlawat, Sonam Sharma   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contemporary Associations of Exclusive Cigarette, Cigar, Pipe, and Smokeless Tobacco Use With Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality in the United States.

JNCI Cancer Spectrum, 2019
Background A growing proportion of tobacco users in the United States use non-cigarette products including cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco. Studies examining the disease and mortality risks of these products are urgently needed.
M. Inoue-Choi, M. Shiels, T. McNeel, B. Graubard, D. Hatsukami, N. Freedman   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source