Smokeless tobacco

A historical depiction of a man taking snuff using his thumb and forefinger.

Dipping tobacco is placed directly in the mouth.

1894 Kinetoscope of Fred Ott taking a snuff and then sneezing, taken by Thomas Edison's laboratory.

Smokeless tobacco is tobacco or a tobacco product that is used by means other than smoking. These uses include chewing, sniffing, placing the product between the teeth and gum, or application to the skin. Types of smokeless tobacco include:

• Dipping tobacco, a type of tobacco that is placed between the lower or upper lip and gums
• Chewing tobacco, a type of tobacco that is chewed
• Iqmik, an Alaskan tobacco product which also contains punk ash
• Snuff, a type of tobacco that is inhaled or "snuffed" into the nasal cavity
• Snus, similar to dipping tobacco although the tobacco is placed under the upper lip and there is no need for spitting
• Creamy snuff, a fluid tobacco mixture marketed as a dental hygiene aid, albeit used for recreation
• Naswar, an Afghan tobacco product similar to dipping tobacco
• Tobacco gum, a kind of chewing gum containing tobacco
• Gutka, a mixture of tobacco, areca nut, and various flavoring sold in South Asia
• Dissolvable tobacco, a variation on chewing tobacco that completely dissolves in the mouth
• Toombak and shammah, preparations found in North Africa, East Africa, and the Arabian peninsula
• Topical tobacco paste, a paste applied to the skin and absorbed through the dermis

Smokeless tobacco products vary extensively worldwide in both form and health hazards, with some evidently toxic forms such as from South Asia, and some forms with less hazards such as snus from Sweden.^[1]

See also

• Herbal smokeless tobacco
• Tobacco
• Electronic cigarette, a cigarette-shaped product that vaporizes nicotine
• Herbal cigarette

References

1. O'Connor, RJ (March 2012). "Non-cigarette tobacco products: what have we learnt and where are we headed?". Tobacco control 21 (2): 181–90. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050281. PMC 3716250. PMID 22345243.