Health and Medical Guide to Mouth and Teeth Smokeless Tobacco Health information topics about Smokeless Tobacco: Children 1. Smoking Stinks! Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/smoking.html 2. Talking to Your Child about Smoking and Smokeless Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/smoking.html 3. Surgeon General's Report for Kids about Smoki Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr4kids/smokless.htm Dictionaries/Glossaries 1. ABC's of Tobacco National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids http://tobaccofreekids.org/abc/frameset.htm National Institutes of Health 1. Smokeless Tobacco National Cancer Institute http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/tcrb/less_default.html 2. Spitting into the Wind: The Facts about Dip and Ch National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/HealthInformation/OralHealthInformationIndex/SpitT... 3. Spit Tobacco: A Guide for Quitting National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/HealthInformation/OralHealthInformationIndex/SpitT... Organizations 1. Tobacco Information and Prevention Source National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/ 2. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Rese http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/ 3. Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids http://tobaccofreekids.org/ 4. American Dental Association http://www.ada.org/ 5. American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/ Overviews 1. Smokeless Tobacco: Addictive and Harmful Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=CA00019 2. Spit Tobacco: It's No Game American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/tobacco/spit_tobacco.cfm Related Issues 1. Leukoplakia Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=DS00458 2. Smokeless Tobacco and Cancer: Questions and Answer National Cancer Institute http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/10_15.htm 3. Smokeless Tobacco: Tips on How to Stop American Academy of Family Physicians http://familydoctor.org/177.xml Statistics 1. Healthy People 2010: Tobacco Use Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.healthypeople.gov/document/html/volume2/27tobacco.htm 2. Spit (Smokeless) Tobacco and Kids National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0003.pdf Teenagers 1. Child and Teen Tobacco Use American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Child_and_Teen_Tobacco_... 2. I Quit: What to Do When You're Sick of Smoki Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/quit/iquit.htm 3. 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