In a statement issued Monday, the association says products such as snuff and chewing tobacco not only can cause nicotine addiction, but may also increase the risk of fatal heart attack, stroke and certain cancers.
The policy statement lays out an in-depth review of the medical literature on use of the products, which manufacturers have been touting as a "safer" alternative to cigarettes and other smoked tobacco products.
Manuel Arango, assistant director of health policy for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, said there has been a lot of debate over the notion that smokeless tobacco products are a viable cigarette replacement or smoking-cessation aid.
"This is a landmark document and good summary of the evidence that we've been waiting for," Arango said Monday from Ottawa. "It has been a bit of a controversial issue, but this really, I think, settles a lot of question marks that we had in the past."
A 2008-2009 youth smoking survey conducted for Health Canada found almost eight per cent of high school boys and 2.5 per cent of girls reported using smokeless tobacco in the previous month. Almost 16 per cent of boys and about four per cent of girls said they had tried one of the products at least once.
The reason that they are making the tobacco product look like a candy is because as they loose people ever day because there is aproxamitly 2,000 people dieing a day they gane 2,500 customers a day
the rwason is so that they can catch the young boys and girls and get them adicted to it
