http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Declines in smoking among youths were observed from the late 1990s. "However, limited information exists on trends in smokeless tobacco use among U.S. youths," writes Israel T. Agaku, D.M.D., M.P.H., of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-significant-smokeless-tobacco-youths.html Addiction Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:02 EST news287758612 Smokeless tobacco users who said they didn't want to quit changed their minds or significantly cut back when given nicotine lozenges or tobacco-free snuff in a Mayo Clinic study. The findings are published in the February issue of Addictive Behaviors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-nicotine-lozenges-tobacco-free-snuff-smokeless.html Addiction Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:04:29 EST news280497848 Thousands of tobacconists from across Europe marched on European Union headquarters on Tuesday to protest against a planned EU crackdown on smoking that includes grueseome health warnings placarded on packets. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-europe-tobacconists-eu-crackdown.html Health Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:53:56 EST news278067231 With menthol cigarettes to be banned and cigarette packs sold with repulsive images of rotting lungs, the European Union released new anti-tobacco proposals Wednesday, the first in over a decade. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-eu-short-brand.html Health Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:42:53 EST news275128968 Scientists today reported identification of the first substance in smokeless tobacco that is a strong oral carcinogen ― a health risk for the 9 million users of chewing tobacco, snuff and related products in the U.S. ― and called upon the federal government to regulate or ban the substance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-identification-strong-oral-carcinogen-smokeless.html Cancer Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:10:01 EST news264861993 New research confirms an association between smoking and a reduced risk for a rare benign tumor near the brain, but the addition of smokeless tobacco to the analysis suggests nicotine is not the protective substance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-nicotine-rare-tumor.html Cancer Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:44:11 EST news254403839 The chemical (S)-N'-nitrosonornicotine, or (S)-NNN, which is present in smokeless tobacco products, is a strong oral carcinogen, according to results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012, held here March 31 - April 4. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-strong-oral-carcinogen-smokeless-tobacco.html Health Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:20:01 EST news252580120 Substituting smokeless tobacco products can save smokers' lives, and there is a scientific foundation that proves it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-substituting-smokeless-tobacco.html Health Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:46:45 EST news248863598 Researchers from the University of Bath Tobacco Control Research Group have found that the tobacco product snus can still be purchased on the internet in the EU despite sales being illegal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-smokeless-tobacco-sold-illegally-online.html Health Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:49:10 EST news246714534 (AP) -- In the smoker-heavy state of Kentucky, a cancer center is suggesting something that most health experts won't and the tobacco industry can't: If you really want to quit, switch to smoke-free tobacco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-urges-smokers-smokeless-tobacco.html Health Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:20:22 EST news239034002 Alcohol use by Indiana sixth- through 12th-graders has declined, but findings from the 21st Annual Survey of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use also revealed a continuing increase in marijuana and smokeless tobacco use. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-indiana-upward-trend-marijuana-smokeless.html Health Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:13:14 EST news234087181 In this prospective cohort study, presented today at the ESC Congress 2011, discontinuation of smokeless tobacco after a myocardial infarction (MI) is associated with a lower risk of subsequent mortality. Investigators found that post MI snus quitters had a 44 % lower risk of total mortality. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-discontinuation-smokeless-tobacco-myocardial-infarction.html Health Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:49:56 EST news233837372