Great American Smoke Dipout
Thursday is the American Cancer Society's annual Great American Smokeout promotion, which aims to get smokers to quit.
But smokers aren't the only users of tobacco. An estimated 6 million Americans use chewing tobacco or snuff, referred to as smokeless tobacco. And they run elevated cancer risks, too, although of different kinds of cancer than those most often attributed to smoking. About 9 million Americans die annually of diseases related to smokeless tobacco.
Now there's a new Web site aimed at helping young users of smokeless tobacco -- those between ages 14 and 25 -- to get rid of that habit. MyLastDip.com, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and directed by the nonprofit Oregon Research Institute as part of a study, is a Web site that offers ways for such users to quit.
Participants are asked to fill in a questionnaire to help the institute with its research, but the services are free.
