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...smoking industry constantly comes out with new products, and they’re designed in a very appealing way,” said HSPH Professor Gregory N. Connolly, the study’s lead researcher. “Smokeless products are high up in the poisoning reporting list. With age, children’s taste functions develop, and they move toward more sweetened products...
Public health officials also worry that this new generation of smokeless products will initiate future tobacco use among youth...
...addition to poisoning our children, smokeless tobacco companies [like R.J. Reynolds] are addicting our teenagers,” said Danny McGoldrick, vice president of research at the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. “Philip Morris and the ‘big boys’ are getting into the smokeless industry, making these products easier to use for our children...
Though there is currently no empirical evidence to link increases in youth smoking rates to the greater prevalence of compact and sweetened smokeless products, McGoldrick insists the two are related...
...know that use of smokeless tobacco products has increased recently among high school students,” McGoldrick said. “Among 12th grade high school boys especially, we’ve seen use increase from back...