Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in US and Swedish smokeless tobacco products

[Ansel]

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http://journal.chemistrycentral.com/...1/151/abstract

[lxskllr]

I'm not ready to read scholarly articles this early in the day, but bad things aren't necessarily bad. We're surrounded by agents both chemical, and biological to want to kill us, and we make out fine. Quantity, and specific compound makes a big difference here. I'll study it later , and see if I ca derive useful information from it.

[Snusdog]

I'm not ready to read scholarly articles this early in the day

Agreed...........however I did read the abstract. Here is the money line

Analysis of the ratios of different PAHs confirmed that the use of fire-cured tobaccos in the snuffs and soft pellet were the major source of PAHs in these product styles, and provided, for the first time, some indications as to the source of PAHs in the other STP styles, including petrogenic and other combustion sources.

Which tells us what we have known all along...snus is much safer because it is pasteurized not fire-cured. I be interested to see what the single elevated PAH level in snus means in context.......But overall..... from the abstract ......... it looks to be basically the same conclusions found by other studies.....which will then be ignored by the anti-tobacco zealots to the harm of those they are seeking to help


Anyway I copied the OP to the Thread with all the links to other Scientific Studies...... so we will have it in one place. I also included a link to the full study (PDF)

Here is that link:
http://journal.chemistrycentral.com/...153X-7-151.pdf


Great find Ansel!!!!..........Thanks for passing it along