Baseball's Bad Habit
- Magazine article on spit tobacco, its use in baseball, and how it's promoted.
- http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/1996/07/broydo.html

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Smokeless Tobacco or Health
- Monograph from the National Cancer Institute. 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/

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=

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

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

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

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&

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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/