This article on MSNBC brings attention to the new smokeless tobacco products and their appeal to kids. The article mentions that "Nicotine-laced pellets, strips and sticks that dissolve completely in the user’s mouth — dubbed 'tobacco candy' by critics — have joined chewing tobacco and snuff to become the second-most common cause of unintentional tobacco ingestion in kids younger than 6."The article points out that "Between 2006 and 2008, nearly 1,800 U.S. youngsters — almost 600 a year —accidentally consumed smokeless tobacco products, according to an analysis of 13,705 tobacco-related reports to the nation’s poison control centers."
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