Snus is a relevant data point to support Synaesthesia's claim. It is (non smoke) tobacco, but won't give you cancer or destroy your lungs (still not healthy with nicotine, of course, but many times less bad).
Untrue. "Smokeless tobacco is a major cause of oral cancer, pancreatic cancer, and esophageal cancer."
http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/features/snus-tobacco...
E.g., Wikipedia says: Thus far, the evidence specifically implicating snus in pancreatic cancer is only suggestive.[25][26]
Your link say: [Scandinavian] snus users have a significantly higher risk of pancreatic cancer.
That is a contradiction. Wikipedia has references.
And snus, according to both references, is less bad than snuff. Your quote ("Smokeless tobacco") generalizes over the same group.