Smokeless Tobacco Definition

As the term suggests, smokeless tobacco refers to the various tobacco products which don't release smoke like cigarettes do. of the various types available, the two most common chewing tobacco and snuff - with the latter being more popular among the two.

While chewing tobacco comes in form of dry leaf, plug and roll, snuff comes in form of moist, dry and sachet. Among these various forms, the use of smokeless tobacco in the form of moist snuff and dry leaf (chewing tobacco) is most common, and has a market share of 73.2 and 24.1 percent respectively.

There exist numerous misconceptions about these products, including the most popular myth that this practice is safer than the practice of smoking cigarettes. The fact of the matter is that tobacco in any form can be harmful for your health, and therefore is best avoided. The lengthy list of diseases caused by tobacco includes some of the major diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular diseases, other than a range of oral health problems.