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Smokeless Tobacco Use Linked to Increase in Peripheral Artery Disease

Incidence rate of peripheral artery disease similar for current users of smokeless tobacco, cigarette smokers

U.S. health groups are slamming the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to permit the General brand of the smokeless tobacco product snus to claim that it poses a "lower risk of mouth cancer

FDA: Smokeless Tobacco Snus Can Be Marketed as Less Risky Than Cigarettes

This is the first time the FDA has allowed product marketing of this type
About one in five U.S. adults currently uses any tobacco product

About 20 Percent of U.S. Adults Currently Use Tobacco Products

Overall, 15.1 percent use cigarettes, with higher use among males, older adults, those with lower incomes
Smokeless tobacco users have higher levels of nicotine and carcinogenic tobacco-specific nitrosamines compared with exclusive cigarette smokers

Nicotine, Toxicants Up With Smokeless Tobacco Exposure

Exclusive smokeless tobacco users have higher levels compared with exclusive cigarette smokers