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by steve_adams_86 110 days ago
According to several reputable sources (cancer societies around the world), it isn't known if this is a risk yet. What are you being this on?

I'm not encouraging anyone to use these things, but we should only make claims that are based on evidence.

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Given the long-term, widespread usage of coffee, is there something specific they're waiting on? Or is that an "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" thing?

Your final statement doesn't really add value without knowing that, unless you agree that we shouldn't assume other people are actually people, and not lizards in people suits until they prove, definitively, otherwise.

My mistake. I interpreted their comment to be implying that nicotine pouches do. I'm not referring to evidence for the safety of coffee, but of nicotine pouches.