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by russelldavis 4530 days ago
> won't give you cancer.

Untrue. "Smokeless tobacco is a major cause of oral cancer, pancreatic cancer, and esophageal cancer."

http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/features/snus-tobacco...

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A better reference than Wikipedia? :-)

E.g., Wikipedia says: Thus far, the evidence specifically implicating snus in pancreatic cancer is only suggestive.[25][26]

Your link say: [Scandinavian] snus users have a significantly higher risk of pancreatic cancer.

That is a contradiction. Wikipedia has references.

And snus, according to both references, is less bad than snuff. Your quote ("Smokeless tobacco") generalizes over the same group.