If reading’s not your thing, you can now get the facts on smokeless tobacco and tobacco harm reduction via two new offerings – the audiobook version of my updated text, “For Smokers Only” (here) and a lively YouTube conversation on the issues with Darcy Compton, president of Mudjug (click on the video).
I started advocating for smokers to switch to vastly safer
smokeless tobacco products some 20 years ago, when my research showed that
health risks related to smokeless use were but a tiny fraction of those associated
with smoking.
My first journal articles caused an uproar. A National Cancer Institute director called
me “unethical” for suggesting that smokers switch, and I was attacked by
outraged national dental associations and colleagues (here). Their message was plain: do your
research, but don’t tell smokers what I had discovered – that the claimed
health risks of smokeless tobacco were largely fabricated, and the resulting
misinformation was preventing smokers from considering a quitting option that
worked. (My findings have since been widely duplicated and accepted.)
I resolved to devote my career to educating smokers about safer
smoke-free products, and in 1995 I authored a book, “For Smokers Only: How
Smokeless Tobacco Can Save Your Life.”
Last year, my publisher released the ebook version, updated
with a fresh chapter on e-cigarettes.
It’s available at Amazon (here), Barnes and Noble (here) and ITunes (here). Now he’s issued the audiobook version,
downloadable at Audible.com (here).
Darcy Compton, California manufacturer of Mudjug portable
spittoons (here),
has developed a global online following.
His YouTube review of “For Smokers Only” has attracted some 225,000 visitors
(here). Darcy and I recently sat down for a
lengthy conversation on all aspects of smokeless tobacco use.
I am indebted to Darcy and Mudjug for their vocal support of
my scientific findings and groundbreaking work in tobacco harm reduction.
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