Power There are two forms of spit tobacco chewing tobacco and snuff. Chewing tobacco is usually sold as leaf tobacco packaged in a pouch or plug tobacco in brick form and both are put between the cheek and gum. Users keep chewing tobacco in their mouths for several hours to get a continuous high from the nicotine in the tobacco.
Snuff is a powdered tobacco usually sold in cans that is put between the lower lip and the gum. Just a pinch is all that's needed to release the nicotine, which is then swiftly absorbed into the bloodstream, resulting in a quick high.
Keep in mind that the spit tobacco you or your friends are putting into your mouths contains many chemicals that can have a harmful effect on your health. Here are a few of the ingredients found in spit tobacco:. The chemicals contained in chew or snuff are what make you high. They also make it very hard to quit. Every time you use smokeless tobacco your body adjusts to the amount of tobacco needed to get that high.
Then you need a little more tobacco to get the same feeling. You see, your body gets used to the chemicals you give it. Pretty soon you'll need more smokeless tobacco, more often or you'll need stronger spit tobacco to reach the same level.
This process is called addiction. Some people say spit tobacco is okay because there's no smoke, like a cigarette has. Don't believe them. It's not a safe alternative to smoking. When you use chew, you just move health problems from your lungs to your mouth. You need to check your mouth often, looking closely at the places where you hold the tobacco. People take a pinch or pouch of moist snuff and put it between the cheek and gums—or behind the lips.
Are Chew and Dip Addictive? Are Chew and Dip Harmful? Yes—there are many harmful health effects of chewing tobacco and dip, including: Cancer. Smokeless tobacco has high levels of chemicals and other substances that can cause cancer, especially mouth and throat cancer.
It can also cause leathery white patches in the mouth that can turn into cancer. Tooth decay and mouth sores. The sugar in smokeless tobacco can cause tooth decay and painful mouth sores. Poor gum health. How to Quit Quitting smokeless tobacco is a lot like quitting smoking, but there are some differences. Quit Notes. Avoid external triggers. Go places and do things where smoking and tobacco aren't allowed.
The SmokefreeVET texting program can be a source of support for you during your quit. Sign Up. More for you. I hear someone open the bathroom door, then shut it without entering. Good call. I have been reading up on the history of my new habit. Native Americans chewed tobacco leaves for centuries. After Columbus, European settlers took to the new drug, with popularity reaching its height in America in the nineteenth century. In , Charles Dickens visited our shores and was thoroughly grossed out by what he called the torrents of "yellow rain.
And in the White House, where the president's inner circle often ignored spittoons and just "bestowed their favors" on the carpet. Smokeless tobacco went into decline for a couple of reasons, including the rise of cigarettes and fear of disease. Doctors of the day probably incorrectly thought the spit was spreading tuberculosis. But in recent decades, dwindling opportunities for overt manliness have many of us spittin' like there's no tomorrow, and chew remains a force for millions of Americans—a large majority of them male, according to the CDC.
This I could have guessed. My freezer has been filling up with these hockey pucks of tobacco I order online, and the logos are almost comically macho: a grizzly bear, a rifle, a longhorn bull—everything but a scrotum. There's also a subset that seems aimed at teens, with wacky fruit flavors including melon, banana, and coconut.
I try them. They taste like Jolly Ranchers gone bad. The Dip Doctor is not a fan, either. Wherever I go, I take out a tin of dip and offer it to those around me. It seems the hospitable thing to do.
Sometimes the tin's appearance elicits moral outrage one friend, the daughter of a dental hygienist, asks, "Are you doing an article on getting gum cancer? As I leave the party, I offer it to three men on the sidewalk taking a smoke break.
They shake their heads, then turn their backs to me. Ostracized by the ostracized. So who are the six million users? Well, baseball players are the most visible. A major league outfielder agrees to email me to explain the love affair—as long as I don't use his name.
Is it a performance enhancer? Not really. More of a semi-sacred ritual that passes the time, lowers stress, and distracts you. Because baseball, if you hadn't noticed, is really damn slow. That's not to mention a surprising number of finance guys. As a vice, it's got plenty of advantages. If you're a trader, you don't have to leave your desk and lurk in a doorway with other cigarette-smoking reprobates.
You can stay in front of your Bloomberg terminal, spitting into empty soda cans. He prefers not to use his name, since he's in the closet at both work and home where he keeps the tins hidden in the basement, away from his wife. I justified my habit because I told myself I was doing research. Max Shea—who works in international equities at Cantor Fitzgerald—tells me he dips when he has to work late nights writing reports. A third tells me, "There are more of us than you think. I live in a small Connecticut town where a lot of people work in finance.
And the gas station here has a whole fridge full of smokeless tobacco. I am doing a research project on my family history and go visit a seventy-two-year-old genealogist at her home to discuss the latest findings. She goes to the kitchen and hands me a glass. It's got a picture of a nineteenth-century rabbi on it—part of a collection, she tells me.
Her eyes widen. You shouldn't be spitting on the rabbi. Spitting is the most controversial part of smokeless tobacco. It's the part my family hates most, thanks to the half-filled Diet Coke cans I often forget to clean up that dot the tables of my apartment. Miraculously, no one has yet taken a swig. True dip fans swear by expectorating. And yet not all smokeless tobacco requires spitting. I figure it's time to test out some saliva-free versions. First, I try a tin of dry snuff. Snuff is powdered tobacco you can ingest by snorting.
It's got a long history—Beethoven and Napoleon loved to carry around boxes of it—but snuff just reminds me of cheap, dirty-looking cocaine. When I sniff a little mound, it makes my nose burn, then I sneeze repeatedly. I can't get over the brown powder all over my hands.
I look like I just came in from plowing potato fields. Next I test out an increasingly popular product called snus. Snus started in Sweden, where they remain hugely popular.
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