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The chemical compounds identified so far in SLT products have been classified broadly into tobacco alkaloids, tobacco specific nitrosamines (TSNAs), volatile N-nitrosamines, N-nitrosamino acids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), radionucleotides, metals, metalloids, pesticide residues, humectants, alfatoxins and mycotoxins 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17

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Mundt MP, Baker TB, Fraser DL, Smith SS, Piper ME, Fiore MC

Tobacco farmers are highly skilled and hardworking, their work has supported generations of their families, and their children have gone to college on the money they pulled off tobacco plants

Arsenic in the environment can be taken up by plants and ingested by animals and enter the food supply