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Risk Factors (Smokeless Tobacco)
Snuff-Out Spit Tobacco!
November 24th, 1997
As the annual stop-smoking campaign rages, the Tobacco Intervention Network is rallying health professionals around a new message: "Snuff Out Spit Tobacco!"
Network director Ken Manske makes it clear, "Smokeless tobacco can kill."
Some 12 million people, many of them youngsters, are regular users of smokeless, or "spit" tobacco. Each year, 8,000 Americans die of oral cancer that is primarily tobacco-related. More than 30,000 new oral cancer cases are reported yearly, with painful and horribly disfiguring consequences. Thousands more lives are lost to cancer of the throat, larynx, or stomach, directly attributable to spit tobacco.
Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-11-24)
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