Smokeless tobacco

Cigarettes make up most of the world market for tobacco products, account for most of the disease and death from tobacco products, and not surprisingly are the focus of most global discussions about tobacco control. However, as the Secretariat report points out, so-called smokeless tobacco products (which include oral and nasal dry and moist snuff) are common in some countries, most notably in South Asia, but also in some parts of Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Northern Europe and the United States.

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