According to Richter, Consumers need to know that smokeless tobacco products, including loose-leaf and moist snuff, are not safe alternatives to smoking, Richter says
But both smokeless products involve absorbing nicotine through mouth tissue
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They advertised very strategically to capture the entire youth," he said.An estimated five million Indian children are hooked on tobacco, although specific chewing figures are unclear, while the Global Adult Tobacco Survey in 2010 showed that 206 million Indians aged over 15 were using smokeless forms.The states now shifting such products off the shelves are taking their cue from a ruling by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India in August last year, which said tobacco could not be used in food products.Their moves are hotly contested by the Smokeless Tobacco Federation (India), an association of chewing tobacco businesses, which is launching court petitions to get them overturned."What they are doing is totally unconstitutional," the group's executive director Sanjay Bechan told AFP."Tobacco is tobacco
This natural ingredient is found in all tobacco products and can cause intense addiction
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