What is in chewing Tobacco that causes cancer

Does Chewing Tobacco Cause Cancer?

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Plenty of people think that chewing tobacco is much safer than cigarettes, and that they can still get their nicotine this way without risking cancer. This is untrue, and there are numerous ways in which chewed tobacco elevates risk for can…

How Does Chewing Tobacco Causes Oral Cancer

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Since many decades, chewing tobacco has been in association with oral cancer. The risk of developing oral cancer is more in tobacco chewing. What causes cancer in tobacco chewers: ･ The tobacco particles remains in the mouth in contact with…

Does smoking or tobacco and pan chewing cause cancer??

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Smoking and chewing are known to cause cancer of the mouth, throat, bladder, lungs, etc. Therefore, it is best to play it safe. If you smoke or chew make every effort to stop.

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Will weed ever be legalized?

Q: Background: Marijuana has been illegal since what, the 70’s? It was legal for a short time since but it “didn’t work” so they illegalized it again. Countless man hours and police money is spent on it and even people with M cards and diseases are treated like criminals sometimes. Plenty more.Plan: US Federal Gov’t should begin the long, gradual process toward marijuana legalization.Advantage 1: Police/crime-Less money wasted.-Less man hours wasted on it, more for things like robberies and murders that actually affect people.-Suffering people with M cards get to use their prescribed medicine in peace.—Look at Denver, CO. Not totally legal but mostly reduced to something like a fine. Only 21 and over can have it legally (just like alcohol) and only up to a ounce (more and they’re charged with dealing).Ad 2: Tax money/warnings about health risks-Start legalizing it, marijuana products companies will form, say there’s a weed pack like cigs, tax the heck out of it if you want (money for desperate gov’t), put giant health risk labels on if you want. (If people don’t mind damaging their brains, it should be their right as Americans to do so). Nobody has to use it if they don’t want to. Make people smoke only 25 feet or more from buildings if you want.Ad 3: Stuff is more fun, food tastes better, fingers look like little people-Not for me but there would be a lot of grateful SnusAd 4: Drug rights-Let poor, treated like an African-American by police weed rejoin his unhealthy but loved by millions BFFs, alcohol and tobacco.-Alcohol is really a type of liquid poison, cigarettes are loaded with additives and contain things like ammonia and tar (delicious, delicious tar if you ask me). Are those really that much healthier than marijuana. Rhetorical question, hellz no!Now the disadvantagesDisad 1: Afraid of change-Just like Cuba Embargo, which will be lifted pretty soon.Disad 2: Health risks-Yeah, but are cigarettes illegal? No, you can get them everywhereDisad 3: Spike in use after legalization-True but only temporary. Like when you take a toy away from a baby and it suddenly really wants it. People want what they can’t have, natural human trait. Would be like this: up, plateau, then down + moreDisad 4: Gateway drug-True, it can be, but here’s what you do to solve that: when you’re greatly lowering restrictions on marijuana, greatly tighten restrictions on harder drugs. When people see how much easier it is to get marijuana and how much harder it is to get hard drugs, hard drug use will go down. Seriously, those drugs are horrible for you. Good whatchamacallit for damage from ecstacy is that it takes ice cream scoops out of your brain. Heroin is worst, meth is prob 2nd worst, but it’s all bad with hardcore drugs. Watch any documentary about an addict to see why.Conclusion: Told both sides. Check facts, look at other countries, use common sense and you’ll see that it’s the obvious move.Oh wait, almost forgot . . . Ad 5: The Deaths-Alcohol: many drunk driving deaths. It’s the leading cause of death for teens in all states (DC, not a state, has a different leading cause. Gun violence, I think). Not just drunk driving deaths, alcohol poisoning deaths and deaths from drunk people killing someone too.-Tobacco and cigarettes: many deaths (isn’t it 60,000 deaths a year just in the US?) from smoking-related diseases like lung cancer. Chewing tobacco causes cancer too, but mostly mouth cancer. If you’re a smoker, you might have to get your voice box removed and replaced with a robotic one. Great for a robot costume to scare trick-or-treaters with! Doesn’t just kill smokers, also kills non-smokers who inhale the secondhand smoke on a regular basis (secondhand smoke is more harmful cuz it’s not filtered). Perfect gift for your spouse who sits nearby when you smoke in the living room, an early death!-All these health dangers and you can buy all of the above at pretty much any store that sells food and drinks.-Marijuana: Pretty much no high driving deaths because high drivers are calm and cautious while drunk drivers are more reckless and aggressive. Can’t overdose from smoking weed. You can have to go to the hospital from eating too much weed in food, but I don’t think you can die from it (or it’s just very unlikely).Secondhand weed smoke can damage non-smokers who inhale it, but that’s why you would just make a “no weed smoking in buildings or within 25 feet of them” rule too.High people don’t kill people cuz they are too busy looking at their hands and eating Doritos.Ok, now I’m done . . . smoke weed every day.Edit: is popping tons of pills and alcohol the drug of choice for the winners then? Hypocrite.Nope. I can’t smoke weed anymore but I have fond memories of it. I think alc, weed, and tobacky are all ok in moderation. The problem is that so many people these days don’t have enough self control to do em in moderation. Only bad drugs IMO are ones like meth, heroin, and cocaine that kill people and ruin lives.

A: well it is being decriminalized in many states, and I think more states will continue to decriminalize it. Legalization is a long ways away, but I think eventually it will be legal nationwide.

How can i break my addiction of tobacco? Please Help?

Q: I started chewing tobacco 2 years ago with a confidence that i wont get addicted but now i started using it every 3 to 4 hrs… I know it is harmful and it causes cancer but i cannot break my addiction. Is there a solution for this.. Can i get a deaddictive substitute or what in this whole wide world can save me from this addiction please help me…….

A: I was a smoker for 10 years. The only way you can leave any addiction is by just stopping the consumption. I can tell you by experience, the first 4 days are very difficult but once you go by them then all things start to be easy. The only thing you need to quit any addiction is the conviction you want to stop.

Does this Information that Oral Sex Causes Cancer Scare You?

Q: Oral sex linked to cancer: You must read this by Jessica Ashley, Shine staff, on Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:56pm PDT Read More from This Author » 215 Comments Post a Comment Report Abuse What you may have considered safer sex could be putting you at risk for cancer. Startling new information about the prevalence of throat tonsil cancers in people in their 30s and 40s is connecting the dots between oral sex, human papillomavirus (HPV) and oral cancer.This article and accompanying video explains why scientists are saying there is “absolutely” a connection between oral sex and cancer in people who are young, otherwise healthy, fit, nonsmokers who do not drink excessively. Recent findings derived from a longitudinal study are cited:Johns Hopkins researchers reported in a study published in February in the Journal of Clinical Oncology that between 1973 and 2004 the incidence of HPV-related oral cancers among people in their 40s nearly doubled. Today more than 34,000 people have oral cancer and 39 percent of those cases are related to HPV, according to data from the American Cancer Society.We know that HPV can be treated without leading to tumors. However, scientists also now know that the virus is passed by direct contact and doesn’t stray from the location where it is transmitted. While HPV does not get into the bloodstream, higher-risk strains of the virus contain proteins that make it impossible for healthy cells to repair themselves.Scientists are now investigating the possibility that HPV can be passed through saliva in simple acts of sharing a spoon or drink and how sexual orientation may or may not be a factor in this formula.In the meantime, we are being warned by the medical community about the upped risks of oral sex. Although men are 35% more likely to contract HPV-derived oral cancers, this is a significant health concern for women and girls.It’s no shock that researchers say the number one risk factor is a high number of sexual partners. It only takes an intimate moment with one infected partner to be exposed to HPV. And clearly, the more partners you have, the more opportunities there are for exposure.It’s this quote that brought this story home for me, said bluntly by a woman who is in remission from HPV-related oral cancer that was diagnosed when she was 38 years old:”People think the face of oral cancer is a 70-year-old man who’s been chewing tobacco and drinking whiskey all his life,” she said. “But the face of oral cancer now is — it’s me, a young woman, healthy, nonsmoking, fit.”This is most of us, right?The report comes at a critical time: Studies show more teens believe oral sex is safer than vaginal sex and last year’s news was flooded with stories of teenagers actively engaging in oral sex with multiple partners and in group settings. The HPV vaccine Gardasil, intended to protect young women from HPV-related cervical cancer, has been discussed from message boards to national media outlets as parents and doctors have debated whether it is worth the pain and cost. This means we not only need to be vigilant in our own sexual behaviors to protect ourselves from HPV and the possibility of throat and tonsil cancers, we also need to better educate young women about why oral sex they are engaging in early and often could have dire consequences later in life. I think we also need to be activists in supporting the development of an HPV vaccine for boys and more research about how this virus is raiding our bodies.As for ourselves, we could all probably get caught up in worrying about how our college years might lead to oral cancer today. Instead of that, I propose we start talking more honestly about how we can have fun, delight in the deliciousness of bodies, sex and intimacy and still keep ourselves healthy and safe. Or at least healthier and safer.

A: Considering just about everything causes cancer these days, like processed cheese, cellphones and mayonaise… I say no. I live my life & I don’t worry about it.