TobaccoHarmReduction.org

Our goal is not just to provide correct information about smokeless tobacco and its role in harm reduction, we also aim to encourage discussion on the issue.

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We would like to know what you think about what you've read here. Do you have questions or would like more in-depth information? Do you disagree with what's been said and would like to express your views? Leave a posting. Selected reader questions will be incorporated into our FAQ (Frequently Answered Questions) section.

The forum is fully moderated. Posts will not appear until they are reviewed, so please allow up to a few days for something to appear. Please review our submission guidelines before posting to a forum.

Submission guidelines

• Submissions must be relevant to the content of the website.

• Submissions that ask questions that we believe are adequately covered in the FAQ might not be posted. If we feel that our answer to the question may have been too subtle or difficult to find, we will post and reply (and fix the FAQ). Otherwise, if the submission is polite and the person submitting it is registered (so we have an email address), we will send a personal reply pointing the reader to the relevant place in the FAQ.

• Submissions that make unsubstantiated assertions that contradict the documented facts that we present in the FAQ will not be posted unless we feel there is genuine confusion that we can clear up. However, posts that challenge something we have written based on some fact or argument that we have not preemptively addressed in the FAQ are very welcome. The best posts we could ever hope to get are ones that force us to add new material to the FAQ or help us discover an error in our information or reasoning.

• Please do not ask for personalized health advice; it is impossible for us to learn enough about an individual's situation to offer such advice, so you will need to interpret our general recommendations to fit your own situation.

• We will not post submissions that just say "this website is wrong" or "this website is great" (though we will be delighted to receive the latter, we just will not post it), since they do not add to the conversation. We will not post submissions that are personally abusive of anyone. Substantive challenges to what someone has written (including us) or criticizing someone for specific claims or actions is always welcome.

• We expect to leave the content of most posts unedited, though we may choose to not post some submissions at all. Should we feel the need to edit a post (perhaps because some of it is useful, but some of it is inappropriately offensive), we will clearly note that we have done so in the text.

• We will edit the titles of new threads (subject lines) if we think that some alternative would more clearly describe the content of the message.

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