What she found while
treating patients in Western Alaska's largest city and the surrounding
villages was something different: People of all ages, sometimes entire
families, chewing an earthy, super-charged variety of smokeless tobacco.
It's called iqmik, or blackbull, and it makes a mule kick of a first impression. Like all smokeless tobacco it can lead to a lifelong nicotine addiction, receding gums and low-birth weight for babies of mothers who chew. It may enter the bloodstream even faster than over-the-counter chew. A University of Alaska Anchorage researcher is studying potential links between the homemade mixture of fungus ashes and tobacco leaves to oral cancer in Alaskans.
It's called iqmik, or blackbull, and it makes a mule kick of a first impression. Like all smokeless tobacco it can lead to a lifelong nicotine addiction, receding gums and low-birth weight for babies of mothers who chew. It may enter the bloodstream even faster than over-the-counter chew. A University of Alaska Anchorage researcher is studying potential links between the homemade mixture of fungus ashes and tobacco leaves to oral cancer in Alaskans.
Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/10/06/2652842/chewing-mixture-of-tobacco-ash.html#storylink=cpy
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