Dissolvable Tobacco products are restricted for kids below 18 years. Tobacco products may have smell like candy bar but they are not for kids, the United States Food and Drug Department highlighted in a conference this week.
Dissolvable tobacco products are available in market, such as mint flavored, stick and strips of fumeless tobacco. These products are relief to those, to whom smoking is restricted. The desire for nicotine to satisfy ones need, Dissolvable tobacco products are made.
Star Scientific Inc., is promoting two new dissolvable tobacco product, namely Ariva and Stonewall. Even R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is going to promote their Camel Strips,Camel Orbs, and Camel Sticks in 2 towns. Health Supporters are fretful about these Tobacco products, children and teens are more likely to it. The nicotine in product is the reason for addiction.
A pediatrician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Dr. Jonathan Winickoff commented the products look like a candy although, the nicotine levels in it is the cause of addiction in adolescents and adults.
The smokeless tobacco dissolvable products are second very popular cause of nicotine toxin substance in broods. A study showed in Journal Pediatrics, April 2010.
Winickoff also said that if youth is previously consuming cigarettes then there is not a single question arises that youth is not indulging Dissolvable tobacco products. Parents must bother for their kids and prevent then from consuming those nicotine products. Dissolvable products smell like candy or in mint taste it doesn’t mean that they are harmless, they are equally harmful as cigarettes are.
Headaches, diarrhea, vomiting, nausea are the signs of nicotine symptoms, whereas dangerous nicotine toxic substances leads in heart palpitations, involuntary twitching, muscle paralysis and may even cause deaths.
When experimented, 1 milligram of nicotine given to toddler, diarrhea and vomiting takes place. It is found that Camel Dissolvable Tobacco Products contain 0.6mg to 3.1 mg of nicotine, liable to products. A normal typical cigarette contains 1mg of nicotine.
Orbs manufacturer R.J Reynolds commented that major steps are taking place as to cure unintended breakdown of Camel Dissolvable Tobacco Products in youth, and providing instructions to poison management centers regarding probable consequences of unintended consumption.
Tobacco Products must be out of reach from children below and 18 years, is the warning line written on products.
Food and Drug Administration department has all the power to put control over these products, according to 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Winickoff stated that FDA will take major steps in controlling these tobacco products among youth.
