Question

How does the amount of nicotine in one dose of chewing tobacco compare with that in one cigarette? Chewing tobacco has 2 ½ times more nicotine than a cigarette. Chewing tobacco has the same amount of nicotine as a cigarette. Chewing tobacco has 5 times more nicotine than a cigarette. Chewing tobacco has one-half as much nicotine as a cigarette.

Answer 1

Chewing tobacco has 1/2 more nicotine than cigarettes

Answer 2

A typical dose of nicotine in snuff is 3.6 milligrams (mg); in chewing tobacco, ... Compared to anaverage of 1 to 2 mg of nicotine in a commercially produced ... time, researchers are reviewing possible links between smokeless tobacco ... Smokeless tobacco is less deadly than cigarette smoking—there isno disputing that.