Center Oral Health Home Tobacco One of the most important healthy lifestyle choices a person can make is NOT to use tobacco products. One can of snuff per day delivers as much nicotine as 60 cigarettes.
Sugar is present in smokeless tobacco to improve taste, and sugar results in tooth decay.
The high levels of grit and sand in smokeless tobacco can cause tooth abrasion. When you keep a pinch or a plug of tobacco in your mouth, a white leathery patch may form. This area may be a sign of a developing precancerous lesion called leukoplakia.