Smokeless tobacco called 'moist snuff' is contaminated with harmful substances

Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 09:42 in Health & Medicine

A new study on the smokeless tobacco product called moist snuff - placed between lip and gum - has led scientists in Minnesota to urge the tobacco industry to change manufacturing practices to reduce snuff's content of carcinogens. Their study is published online in ACS' monthly journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.

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