Smokeless tobacco is a blanket term that refers to a number of tobacco products that are used by means other than smoking. These uses include chewing, sniffing, placing the product between the teeth and gum, and application to the skin. Types of smokeless tobacco include:
- Blackbull, Traditional Alaskan native smokeless tobacco mixed with Punk Ash
- Dipping tobacco, a type of tobacco that is placed between the lower or upper lip and gums
- Chewing tobacco, a type of tobacco that is chewed
- Snuff, a type of tobacco that is insufflated or "snuffed" through the nose
- Snus, similar to dipping tobacco, however, without the need for spitting
- Creamy snuff, a fluid tobacco mixture marketed as a dental hygiene aid, albeit used for recreation
- Naswar, an Afghan tobacco product similar to dipping tobacco
- Tobacco gum, a kind of chewing gum containing tobacco
- Gutka, a mixture of tobacco, areca nut, and various flavoring sold in South Asia
- Dissolvable tobacco, a variation on chewing tobacco that completely dissolves in the mouth
- Topical tobacco paste, a paste applied to the skin and absorbed through the dermis
- Tobacco water, a mixture of water and tobacco traditionally used as an organic insecticide
Famous quotes containing the words smokeless and/or tobacco:
“To warm the frozen swamp as best it could
With the slow smokeless burning of decay.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)
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