Sport and tobacco

As the awareness of the dangers that comes with smoking and snuff use increases, the use of tobacco has decreased a lot. Off course there are still way too many people smoking, using snuff, or both, but today more and more people choose to quit and put focus on their health. If you want to know more about snuff, different brands and history, visit http://www.snusdirect.com/ettan-snus. In sports, such as ice hockey, baseball, soccer and cricket there has never been a lot of tobacco use since athletes always been very keen on keeping their fitness level and health on top. Even though there are a very few athletes who smoke, there are a lot more, especially in Sweden, who use snuff. One of the main differences in using snuff and smoking is that smoking goes straight down to your lungs, giving you a lot less energy when it comes to running and practice sports. Snuff has no impact on your lungs. Snuff contains a lot of nicotine and other toxic substances making your heart raise and beat around 15 000 times more a day, than a person who is not using snuff. Also the risk of injuries is about 50 percent bigger for a snuff using athlete than a non-using one. The healing time will also be a lot longer for a person using snuff. In Sweden it is extremely common that, in particular, ice hockey players use snuff. In fact more than 50 percent of the Swedish elite ice hockey players are snuff users. Why this is, no one really knows.