How is smokeless tobacco used?
Smokeless tobacco products are held in the mouth, cheek or lip, which allows the nicotine to be absorbed across the inner lining of the cheeks and lip. Smokeless tobacco products have been traditionally referred to as “spit tobacco,” but U.S. tobacco manufacturers have started manufacturing pouched moist snuff and compressed tobacco lozenges that are “spit-less.” The most commonly used form of smokeless tobacco in the United States is moist snuff– either as loose particles or sachets/pouches. Users place a wad, pinch or sachet between the cheek and gum. What are common types/brands of smokeless tobacco? • Iq’mik – prepared from fire-cured tobacco leaves mixed with punk ask – (ash generated by burning woody fungus off the bark of birch trees). This smokeless tobacco product is used mostly by Alaska Natives • Ariva and Stonewall – compressed tobacco, mint and eucalyptus lozenges (manufactured by Star Scientific) • Camel Orbs – compressed tobacco pellets with mint or cinnamon flavoring th
