On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:00:10 +0700, John B wrote:

Actually "dipping snus" is probably roughly the same as chewing
tobacco as far as danger to the individual.

The addiction is to the drug, not the route of delivery. Nicotine is as
addictive as opioids.

BTW, after 35 years of working in mental health and substance abuse, the
gateway drug for narcotics, meth, etc., is not marijuana. It's tobacco.
Most addicts I have worked with started with tobacco and it's the
addiction they fight the hardest about giving up. From tobacco they
usually go to alcohol and/or whatever pills Mommy and Daddy leave laying
around the house unsupervised.