The most controversial tobacco product on U.S. market, Dissolvable tobacco, is raising more and more questions, as public health advocates claim they lure teenagers into smoking.

Diane Edwards, a nurse at a school in Columbus, states that smokeless tobacco items such as Camel Orbs are very dangerous because they look like candies, and can be easily consumed by teenagers who are willing to try nicotine, but don’t want to smoke cigarettes. And this is the most worrying issue according to the scientists.

Edwards, who is also spokesperson for the Ohio Association of School Nurses, said they have been concerned that these new tobacco products resemble sweets, are so easy to conceal and are offered in different flavors, but still contain high amounts of nicotine, enough to hook an adolescent on nicotine.

That temptation to teenagers and likely health complications has prompted Sen. Sherrod Brown to draft a proposal to take away dissolvable tobacco from the market.

In the open letter to the Food and Drug Administration, Sen. Brown stated that tobacco companies created dissolvable tobacco in attempt to entice new smokers, especially among teenagers, into tobacco consumption and keep them addicted to nicotine.

Since Sherrod Brown represents Ohio in the Senate, he has the right to be worried, because Columbus is one three U.S. cities, used by RJ Reynolds as the test-markets for the company’s newest tobacco items –Camel Sticks, Strips and Orbs, dissolvable smokeless tobacco, coming in the packages resembling those of Tic Tacs.

The landmark Tobacco Control Act signed by President Obama last year requires the FDA to investigate the impact of the new tobacco products on consumers, including the risks related to the accidental consumption of these products by children. According to a research published two months ago, dissolvable tobacco can cause a severe nicotine poisoning if accidentally consumed by an infant, lured by catchy pack of that product and its sweet smell.

Shortly after the research publishing, the Center of Tobacco Products, a newly-established department of the FDA, required Reynolds American and Star Scientific to send the Agency all the data on their products – Camel Dissolvables and Arriva, manufactured correspondingly by these two companies.

Center of Tobacco Products Director Lawrence Deyton admitted they have to find out whether adolescents can be enticed by smokeless dissolvable tobacco, and namely, by its colorful packaging, sweet flavors, and convenient sizes.

Reynolds American responded that the only audience the company is trying to appeal with the new products is adult smokers and tobacco consumers, who are interested in smokeless products, as a new ways of getting nicotine, without hazardous smoke.

The company spokesman said that all dissolvable products are offered for sale in childproof containers, bear all the required health warnings and selling in the store section where adolescents are not permitted to go.

Star Scientific as well commented on the issue, claiming the Arriva brand was introduced to the U.S. tobacco market almost a decade ago, and since that time the company has not received any complaints about the accidental poisoning of children, because people who consume tobacco are usually very careful about not letting their kids try these products.