Talk:America's Best Chew

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 * 1) Cutting out the various pouch/variety descriptions makes sense, because the company is trying to parlay its leadership position into diversification to gather up more market share.  If we try to cover that, we're going to have to edit a great deal to keep up with every product launch and product retirement.
 * 2) Cutting out the leaf vs. plug distinction, on the other hand, bothers me.  In 1910, chewing tobacco was plug/twist tobacco that a man cut off with his pocket knife.  Red Man distinguished itself for being shredded leaf.  It led the market and the twist/plug forms died out gradually, leaving Red Man as the #1 type of non-snuff oral tobacco.  They are now (well, a few years back, actually) introducing other forms, but I think it's important for the article to leave in place some indication that the brand was different from the others, early on, by being pouch tobacco.  Geogre 09:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

dead reference
The reference [8] is a 404 now. I couldn't find a copy of the article in google or on the page itself (which also uses google as its search engine). As I'm unsure what to do with it now, I just left a comment here. --84.171.15.229 17:54, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * ^ a b c "Chewing Tobacco Just the Facts", National Institutes of Cancer. Retrieved on 2006-07-18.


 * I'll see if I can find an equivalent source, as that's really all we need, but I wonder if this could be another victim of web pruning. I hope not, can't imagine so, as the NIC shouldn't be under any pressure.  The information in question is relatively easy to find, and I would imagine that someone has copied the content, so it shouldn't be a difficult search.  Geogre 11:17, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Correlation with tooth decay and cavities ?
Does anyone know if there is an added risk of tooth decay associated with the use of chewing tobacco ? I suppose I could ask my dentist. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.181.48.145 (talk) 05:24, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Look above: the American Dental Association, and probably your own national dentistry association, are against it and claim an increase in oral cancers and staining. You can check out the dental association in your nation.  I'll bet that they have plenty against the practice.  At the same time, chewing tobacco was extremely common, and originally cigarettes were "disgusting" in comparison.  Geogre (talk) 10:53, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

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Controversy?
Have the name and logo been controversial in any way? I would honestly be surprised if they hadn’t, given that this company is definitely not Native American-owned (and thus the brand would fall into the same category as sports mascots like the Cleveland Indians, Washington Redskins, etc.)

Indeed, they sell this tobacco at my workplace and I’m honestly surprised it’s still being made. I mean, it reminds me of “Nigger Hair“ tobacco, which thankfully went out of production decades ago, but they are still making Red Man. 97.116.51.145 (talk) 20:48, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Incredibly racist
I can't believe this is still sold in 2021. 139.138.6.121 (talk) 05:35, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * How is tobacco racist?188.172.109.5 (talk) 23:24, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Rebranding to America's Best Chew
I am not familiar with this article but I thought it might be worth bringing up that it appears that Red Man is being rebranded as America's Best Chew according to the source linked in the article. I don't know whether this is true or whether that article is credible but I figured I should say something since I got myself into the edit history of this article.

I originally reverted an edit that changed Red Man instances to America's Best Chew because I did not know of the rebranding. Then after finding out I quickly undid my revert. However I did not read the article or verify anything so I'd suggest anyone working on this article to look into that and verify it for themselves and see whether the article is okay as it is or whether an older version should be restored. Thanks. Satricious (talk) 17:07, 11 February 2022 (UTC)


 * I work at a gas station. I cannot find an article from recently talking about the change, but I can say that within the last week we sold out of what we had left of Red Man and are now selling America's Best Chew. The packaging has a note on it that says that it is 'the same Red Man taste'.
 * I only just now created an account because of that, so I am not familiar with wikipedia talk page culture. Apologies if I do something wrong from ignorance. Being related to your category I felt it best put here instead of a new grouping. I was wanting to know, since the name change does appear to have taken effect, would it be ok to change the name of the article to America's Best Chew, as the first line in it presently states, instead of leaving the former name. Oukakisa (talk) 05:36, 26 March 2022 (UTC)