Smokeless Tobacco
Smokeless Tobacco (also called Dipping Tobacco , Dip or Moist Snuff ) is the English-language name for loose tobacco from the USA ; the translation into German is smokeless tobacco . It is a special type of chewing tobacco . Both the coarse ( long cut ) and the fine ( fine cut ) are removed from the jar and placed pressed together between the gums and lower lip. The nicotine is absorbed through the oral mucosa. The flow of saliva causes the tobacco to mix with the saliva , creating tobacco juice. This is usually spat out (especially after the tobacco has worn off).
Popular brands:
- Skoal
- Timberwolf
- Kodiak
- Longhorn
- Cougar
- Rooster
- Copenhagen
- Sequioa
- Silver Creek
- Husky
- Kayak
- Grizzly
- Red Seal
- redwood
- Renegades
- cooper
- Red Man
- Stoker's
The largest manufacturer is US Smokeless (Skoal, Copenhagen, Rooster, Husky). Other well-known manufacturers are Conwood (Kodiak, Grizzly) and Pinkerton Tobacco (Timberwolf, Longhorn).
Smokeless Tobacco has been linked to a wide variety of cancers including oral cancer , lip cancer , and tongue cancer . The nitrosamine values of the individual varieties vary significantly, the "Silver Creek" brand has the highest nitrosamine value. The average nitrosamine value is around 12 ppm , which is roughly equivalent to a Marlboro full-flavor cigarette.
According to a study by the Canadian University of Alberta, however, the use of smokeless tobacco is at most a negligible factor in the development of the supposedly obvious oral cancer and not its trigger. In addition, these products are far less harmful than cigarette smoke.
This type of tobacco use is particularly common among baseball and ice hockey players in the United States.
Smokeless Tobacco is also very popular in the western and rodeo scene. So enters US Smokeless often as the main sponsor of bull-riding competitions and also has individual Cowboys as an affiliate under contract or sponsor them. The Copenhagen brand is most strongly represented among the cowboys and bullriders , and advertising is accordingly aimed at this group of customers (advertising slogan: Some men never compromise - They cope ).