smokeless tobacco

Oral nicotine product

Smokeless tobacco is tobacco consumed without burning—chewed, held in the mouth, or inhaled as snuff rather than smoked.

The category includes chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco, and snuff.

He tucked a wad of smokeless tobacco into his cheek.

Though marketed as safer than cigarettes, smokeless tobacco carries significant cancer risks.

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Categories
Opposites
method of tobacco consumption

smokeless tobaccocigarettes

Paper-wrapped tobacco for smoking

cigars · pipe tobacco · cigarette smoking · tobacco smoke · hookah

health risk profile

smokeless tobaccosmoking

Inhaling burning tobacco

cigarette smoke · secondhand smoke

substance use vs. abstinence

smokeless tobaccotobacco-free

Lacking cigarette products

sobriety · abstinence · clean living

Family

smoke, less, smoking, smoked, tobacco, smoker, smokers, smokeless, nonsmoking

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG