Obi the Student Physician

     Last time out, we started to look into the topic, “your lifestyle could be a death sentence” and we began by considering the effect that alcohol consumption can have on us, and we concluded that it was in our best interest if we abstained from alcohol because of it’s addictive potentials and susceptibility to causing numerous ailment cutting across diabetes and arthritis e.t.c. Today we will begin by taking a look at one other substance that has also been abused by man, ground tobacco otherwise known as snuff. The rate at which ground tobacco is consumed today is believed to have reduced detrimentally especially amongst the younger generation, as cigarette smoking has become the more dominant form of tobacco use. But again, if you look back at history, it would wow you to know that there was a point in time when the snuff industry was very fashionable, so much so that the manufacture of snuff accessories was a lucrative industry in several cultures.    ...