Smokeless Tobacco and Other Products

The World Health Organization sponsors the World No Tobacco Day. The purpose of World No Tobacco Day 2006 is to encourage countries and governments to work towards strict regulation of tobacco products.

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion provides a fact sheet on smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco and snuff).

American Cancer Society provides information on prevention and early detection.

Teens Health offers information about smokeless tobacco and its use.

The Mayo Clinic offers an article about chewing tobacco and the risks related to the use of smokeless tobacco.

The mission of the National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP) is to prevent people, especially young people, from starting to use tobacco, and to help users to quit. NSTEP offers information and materials on spit tobacco use, prevention, and cessation.

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research's National Oral Health Information Clearinghouse offers educational booklets that discuss spit tobacco use in a colorful and graphic format. These booklets are designed specifically for young men who have decided to quit or are thinking about it.

The American Academy of Family Physicians has a fact sheet with information on how to quit using smokeless tobacco.

American Cancer Society provides information about the health risk associated with Cigar smoking.

American Lung Association provides a Cigar smoking fact sheet.

The Mouth Cancer Foundation provides a fact sheet about the risks associated with smoking from a hookah.

The Mayo Clinic provides an article about the dangers of hookah smoking.

The CDC provides a fact sheet of Bidis and Kreteks (clove cigarettes) smoking.