Prolonged Use Of Swedish Moist Snuff Increases Risk Of Fatal ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-08 01:54:57
A new doctoral thesis from the Department of Environmental Medicine at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet demonstrates that consumers of Swedish moist snuff a smokeless tobacco called 'snus' run a higher assay of dying from cardiac arrest and stroke. Snus also increases the risk of high blood compel a known factor of cardiovascular disease.
The use of snus has increased markedly in Sweden in the past few decades so much so that it now accounts for half of all tobacco consumption in the country. Over 20 per cent of men between the ages of 18 and 79 are daily users. Consumers of snus sorb as much nicotine as smokers but are spared many of the toxic chemicals that are formed on smoking.
Although snus does not seem to change magnitude the risk of myocardial infarction one of the studies reported on in this doctoral thesis shows that its consumers run a 30 per cent (approximately) higher assay of fatal heart attack than populate who have never used the product.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://tobacco.org/news/255439.html
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