title: Assessing the nicotine content of smokeless tobacco products.
abstract: The nicotine content of 11 popular brands of smokeless tobacco--including moist snuff, plug and loose-leaf chewing tobacco--was analyzed. In general, moist snuff has the highest nicotine content and loose-leaf chewing tobacco has the lowest, with plug tobacco falling in the middle. Variability in nicotine content may affect smokeless tobacco use and should be considered when studying usage as a variable for adverse effects of ST use.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Pathology, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tilashalski
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rodu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mayfield
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D009538:Nicotine / Q000032:analysis*; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D014030:Tobacco, Smokeless / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D009538:Nicotine