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Site description: "Don't be fooled by the label 'smokeless'...the industry would love to have you believe that chewing tobacco and snuff are a safe alternative to cigarettes. In fact, what the medical professionals call 'spit tobacco' is just as addictive -- and just as likely to cause cancer and heart disease -- as cigarettes." The facts.
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| Previous 10 | Health Risks Associated With Cigar Smoking | http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/284/6/735 Health Risks Associated With Cigar Smoking | Top/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Cigar_and_Pipe_Smoking AMA report summarizes findings from a scientific conference, including cigars cause nicotine addiction and lung cancer. |
| Previous | ScienceDaily Magazine -- Use Of Smokeless Tobacco May Lead To Breast Cancer, Wake Forest Team Reports | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000509003313.htm ScienceDaily Magazine -- Use Of Smokeless Tobacco May Lead To Breast Cancer, Wake Forest Team Reports | Top/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Smokeless_Tobacco Preliminary results suggest that using smokeless tobacco may dramatically increase the risk of breast cancer, Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers reported. |
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| Next | Spit Tobacco: Oral Cancer by the Can | http://quitsmoking.about.com/library/weekly/aa042699.htm?once=true& Spit Tobacco: Oral Cancer by the Can | Top/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Smokeless_Tobacco Short article outlines the medical facts: half of all oral cancer patients are alive 5 years after diagnosis. |
| Next 10 | British Medical Association on Secondhand Smoke | http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Smokefree British Medical Association on Secondhand Smoke | Top/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Secondhand_Smoke Medical report concludes that secondhand smoke causes lung cancer and heart disease, kills thousands of people in the UK, and there is no safe level of exposure. |
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