http://www.csindy.com/IndyBlog/archives/2011/08/05/tobacco-products-that-really-suck Comments On: Tobacco products that really suck by Pam Zubeck en-us Copyright 2013 Colorado Springs Independent. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Colorado Springs Independent readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Colorado Springs Independent. becca@csindy.com (Colorado Springs Independent Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0600 Sun, 19 May 2013 13:00:00 -0600 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Anima]]> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:05:47 -0600 Colorado Springs Independent
If the CO Board of Health had any evidence that dissolvable tobacco products are being marketed to youth, they would have notified the FDA, the CO Dept of Health and/or the CO Attorney General for law enforcment and/or prosecution of offenders.

Instead, the CO Board of Health is trying to deceive the public in an attempt to ban the sale of dissolvable tobacco products and to prevent cigarette smokers from sharply reducing their health risks.

According to epidemiological research, smokeless tobacco products marketed in the US are 99% less hazardous alternatives to cigarettes http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/3/1/37
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/7/36
http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/pdf/1477-7517-8-19.pdf

According to scientific research at http://www.nicorette.com/quit-smoking-products/nicorette-nicotine-lozenge.aspx?showsplash=true and http://www.nicorette.com/quit-smoking-products/nicorette-nicotine-lozenge.aspx?showsplash=true , dissolvable tobacco products are virtually identical to dissolvable nicotine products like GlaxoSmithKline's Commit and Nicorette http://www.nicorette.com/quit-smoking-products/nicorette-nicotine-lozenge.aspx?showsplash=true , which are also marketed with flavorings.

And according to US survey data, smokeless tobacco is not a gateway to cigarette smoking.
http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k9/smokelesstobacco/smokelesstobacco.htm
http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/5/530.short

If the CO Board of Health was truly interested in reducing tobacco attributable morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs (99% of which is caused by the daily inhalation of tobacco smoke, not by tobacco or nicotine usage), the Board would notify Colorado smokers that smokeless tobacco products (including dissolvables) and electronic cigarettes are far less hazardous altneratives to cigarettes, and to encourage smokers to switch.

William T. Godshall, MPH
Founder and Executive Director
Smokefree Pennsylvania
1926 Monongahela Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
412-351-5880
smokefree@compuserve.com


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