Source: MetroSource News
\nAuthor: staff<\/p>\n
A new lozenge made from tobacco hits some stores in January.<\/p>\n
“USA Today” says R.J. Reynolds, the maker of Camel cigarettes, is calling
\nthe melt-in-your mouth product “Orb.” It’s designed for smokers who can’t
\nlight up in restaurants or at the office. But public health officials fear
\nit’ll end up in school lockers and backpacks too. One official from
\nHarvard’s School of Public Health called it, quote, “a wake-up call.”
\nGregory Connolly said, quote, “These products are designed to enhance social
\nacceptability of tobacco.” He likened them more to food and said that while
\nsucking on an Orb may be less dangerous than smoking a Camel, it’s still
\naddicting.<\/p>\n
The Orb is the latest smoke-free tobacco product, following on the heels of
\n“snus,” or pouches that sit in the mouth and aren’t spit out. A spokesman
\nfor Philip Morris, which makes snus, said smokeless tobacco sales are
\ngrowing annually by between six and eight-percent, while cigarette sales are
\nfalling by about two to three-percent a year. The Orb makes its debut in
\nPortland, Oregon, Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Source: MetroSource News Author: staff A new lozenge made from tobacco hits some stores in January. “USA Today” says R.J. Reynolds, the maker of Camel cigarettes, is calling the melt-in-your mouth product “Orb.” It’s designed for smokers who can’t light up in restaurants or at the office. But public health officials fear it’ll end up in school lockers and backpacks too. One official from Harvard’s School of Public Health called it, quote, “a wake-up call.” Gregory Connolly said, quote, “These products are designed to enhance social acceptability of tobacco.” He likened them more to food and said that while sucking on an Orb may be less dangerous than smoking a Camel, it’s still addicting. The Orb is the latest smoke-free tobacco product, following on the heels of “snus,” or pouches that sit in the mouth and aren’t spit out. A spokesman for Philip Morris, which makes snus, said smokeless tobacco sales are growing annually by between six and eight-percent, while cigarette sales are falling by about two to three-percent a year. The Orb makes its debut in Portland, Oregon, Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[580,581,88],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oral_cancer_news","tag-orb","tag-smoke-free-tobacco","tag-tobacco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}