Smokeless tobacco induced biophysical and biochemical alterations in the plasma, erythrocytes, and platelets of panmasala users: Subsequent biological effects Shaik Begum, Nagajothi G., Swarnalatha K., Vinod C., Narender K., Suresh C., Narendra Maddu Toxicology Reports 3
Furthermore, apart from sex and age, other personal factors that may affect the risk of mortality, such as drinking and physical activity, were not sufficiently evaluated, and target illnesses were limited to such specific ones as lung cancer and heart diseases, making it impossible to compare the risk across various illnesses
The plaintiffs case was built on the idea that social medias addictiveness is a defective product design, the same argument made about tobacco decades ago
This, however, does not mean a 95% reduction in risk
They were sold during a period of time where society was beginning to realize the dangers of smoking