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April 01, 2008
WS Radio: Brad Rodu audio
Did you know that smokeless tobacco (snuff or dip) is safer than smoking tobacco? Did you know that it's 98 per cent safer? Yeah, that's right--if you substitute your smoking habit for a smokeless tobacco habit, you will get your nicotine in a much safer format. We bet you didn't know. But it's true.
That's according to Dr. Brad Rodu, who was our guest on Political Animals yesterday. If the 45 million American smokers were to switch from smoking to smokeless tobacco, the likely death rate would plummet from 400,000 per year to 12,000 per year. ("But," you say, "what about oral cancer? Aren't oral cancer rates much higher for dippers than for smokers?" Sorry, wrong again. Smokers have oral cancer rates that are higher than smokeless users.)
Take a listen (if the little widget doesn't work for you, here is the direct link):
Posted by Western Standard on April 1, 2008 | Permalink
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