Spit Tobacco Info 

Spit tobacco is not a safe alternative to smoking.

• Approximately 100,000 Wisconsin residents chew tobacco.
• In Wisconsin, 14 percent of high school males and two percent of high school females chew.
• Smokeless tobacco contains 28 cancer-causing agents (carcinogens) and increases the risk of developing cancer of the oral cavity.
  
  

Trends in Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Adults and Adolescents in the United States American Journal of Public Health, May 2006

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Resources
These sites can help inform you about spit tobacco.

UW-CTRI Facts on Chewing Tobacco
Information and cessation methods for spit tobacco users.

CDC Smokeless Tobacco Page
Smokeless tobacco information and factsheets from the CDC.

National Spit Tobacco Education Program
Has a variety of spit tobacco educational and informational resources.

National Cancer Institute: Smokeless Tobacco
Factsheet with Q&A style information about spit tobacco.

Tobacco Free Kids: Spit Tobacco factsheets
Many factsheets with information and statistics regarding spit tobacco.

Through With Chew
Homepage of Through with Chew Week. Also has spit tobacco information and quit materials.

ChewFree
Part of a research project funded by the National Institutes of Health to help people quit their use of spit tobacco.

Treating Spit Tobacco Dependence
Information for health care providers on treating spit tobacco dependence.

Check our free materials list for print spit tobacco resources.