Acute myocardial infarction in a young adult male associated with the use of smokeless tobacco [Sweka]

ABSTRACT

Dipping smokeless tobacco [ST] is used worldwide. We report a case of acute myocardial infarction in a young patient, who consumed smokeless tobacco [Sweka] for over one year. ST may be as harmful as smoking and carries adverse cardiac complications. A prompt call for restriction and prohibition is advised and its alternative use to quit smoking must be abandoned