Journal article
Smokeless Tobacco Products in India – A Scoping Review
SBV Journal of Basic, Clinical and Applied Health Science, Vol.8(3), pp.131-135
07/2025
DOI: 10.4103/SBVJ.SBVJ_29_25
Abstract
The term smokeless tobacco (SLT) refers to tobacco that is ingested without being heated or burned at the moment of consumption. Tobacco that does not produce smoke can be consumed orally or nasally. A little amount of extremely fine tobacco powder combined with fragrant compounds, known as dry snuff, is breathed for nasal usage. Although it is still practised, this type of SLT usage is not extremely widespread in India. In India, the oral use of SLT is common; varied ways of consumption include chewing, sucking, and putting tobacco preparations to the teeth and gums. Tobacco substitutes are frequently prepared at home, although they are also manufactured. A number of SLT products have recently been created on a big scale industrially, commercially advertised and are accessible in tiny plastic and aluminium foil packets.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Smokeless Tobacco Products in India – A Scoping Review
- Creators
- Shivashankar Kengadaran - Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth UniversityDivvi Anusha - Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth UniversityDaniel J. Caplan - University of IowaShyam Sivasamy - Meenakshi Ammal Dental College and HospitalPrabhakar Divyaraj - Cancer Institute (WIA)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- SBV Journal of Basic, Clinical and Applied Health Science, Vol.8(3), pp.131-135
- DOI
- 10.4103/SBVJ.SBVJ_29_25
- ISSN
- 2582-5593
- eISSN
- 2581-6039
- Number of pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2025
- Academic Unit
- Preventive and Community Dentistry
- Record Identifier
- 9984964234602771
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