Smokeless Tobacco

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Smokeless Tobacco

• Its not as dangerous as smoking, right? Or is it?

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Disclaimer

• The pictures you are about to see are graphic,
  but they show the true risks associated with
  using smokeless tobacco.

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Figure 7. Squamous cell carcinoma of pyriform
sinus with direct extension to skin in smokeless
tobacco user (Medscape.com)
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• Oral cancer has been shown to occur several times
  more frequently among snuff dippers than among
  nontobacco users, and the excess risk of cancers
  of the cheek and gum may reach nearly fifty-fold
  among long-term snuff users (Quit Tobacco.com).
• Image of Tongue Cancer/Tumor

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Stained Teeth
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Loss of Gums

• Recent studies of the effects of smokeless
  tobacco use on gingival and periodontal tissues
  have resulted in equivocal findings
  (QuitTobacco.com).

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Meet Rick Bender

• http//www.tobaccofacts.org/tob_truth/spit.htmlri
  ck
• http//www.nosnuff.com/bio.html

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Penny anyone?

• Have you ever placed a penny in your mouth?
  Disgusting isnt it? Imagine that everything you
  ate for the rest of your life tasted like a
  mouthful of pennies.
• Once cancer of the mouth, throat, tongue, or jaw
  occurs, many individuals lose the function of
  their taste buds causing everything to taste like
  pennies for the rest of their lives.