Smokeless Tobacco and Taste Sensitivity

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To the Editor: The increasingly widespread use of smokeless tobacco and its medical implications have been the subject of recent reviews,1 , 2 as well as a National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference.3 These reports have focused largely on oral-pharyngeal cancer and dental and periodontal disease. In addition, "tobacco is said to diminish the user's sense of taste and smell"1; however, contrary to this popular belief, there is little evidence of any lasting effect of tobacco smoking on measures of taste function4 , 5 and no relevant studies concerning smokeless tobacco. Preliminary findings from our laboratory suggest that smokeless tobacco users have aberrations . . .

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