Tobacco chewing is a harmful addiction causing oral and systemic damage. Nicotine and carcinogens lead to addiction, DNA damage, leukoplakia, and oral cancer. It also causes social and financial harm.

You're probably familiar with the dangers of cigarette smoking, but chewing tobacco and snuff are other tobacco products that can have serious health effects, as well. Learn more about the long-term ...

Snuff tobacco is one type of smokeless tobacco product that's more finely ground than chewing tobacco. Snuff may be chewed or sucked in your mouth or sniffed into your nostrils. You absorb nicotine ...

Stephen Strasburg, like his former college teammate Addison Reed, is giving up smokeless tobacco following the death of Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn. The Washington Nationals ace, who played for Gwynn at ...

A smokeless tobacco company has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a man who died of mouth cancer in what the family's attorney and an expert called the first wrongful death settlement from ...

At issue is whether all tobacco should be presented to the public as equally dangerous, or if statistically safer tobacco products such as chewing tobacco should be promoted as a less risky ...

Baseball players have been associated with chewing or smokeless tobacco from the early days of the game. It was a habit acquired from boredom, and the desire to generate a saliva flow throughout a ...

HBO's "Real Sports" has some interesting-sounding segment topics coming up on Tuesday night's episode, including one on chewing tobacco. Here are excerpts the network sent: Host Jon Frankel voiceover: ...

Feb. 17—Thomas Larson and Julie Bisbee, executive director of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, provides information regarding TSET's Through With Chew Week. 1 What is the purpose of this week's ...