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Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Open Access Switching to smokeless tobacco as a smoking cessation method: evidence from the 2000 National Health Interview Survey 1 2 Brad Rodu* and Carl V Phillips Address: 1Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA and 2Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada Email: Brad Rodu* - brad.rodu@; Carl V Phillips - carl.v.phillips@ualberta.ca * Corresponding author Published: 23 May 2008 Received: 20 March 2008 Accepted: 23 May 2008 Harm Reduction Journal 2008, 5:18 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-5-18 This article is available from: /content/5/1/18 © 2008 Rodu and Phillips; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Although smokeless tobacco (ST) use has played a major role in the low smoking prevalence among Swedish men, there is little information at the population level about ST as a smoking cessation aid in the U.S. Methods: We used the 2000 National Health Interview Survey to derive population estimates for the number of smokers who had tried twelve methods in their most recent quit attempt, and for the numbers and proportions who