Medical professionals should be more aware and inquire more specifically about smokeless tobacco use by their rural female patients, according to new research among a population of rural women in North Alabama. Lead author Dr. Brenda Talley, a registered nurse and associate professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) College of Nursing, says the population of women users of smokeless tobacco is known all too well by tobacco corporations that spend millions of dollars offering female-oriented premiums like sets of glassware or other sales incentives. The smokeless tobacco most used by the women in the study was snuff, a dry, finely ground product usually sold in cans.