Chewing tobacco brings a tremendous amount of health risks with it. We have outlined many of these health risks.
Many of these may seem harmless, tooth decay, gum disease, addiction, etc. As adults, we need to inform our children of dangers and warn them of the potential risks associated with practices that they may seem to think is “in.” More and more teenagers are using chewing tobacco over smoking, because it is less obvious – some even use it in school.
Today, we would like to outline the most important and dangerous health risk associated with chewing tobacco, and that is oral cancer. Your risk of oral cancer is increased if you use smokeless tobacco. Oral cancer includes cancers of the mouth, throat, cheek, gums, lips and tongue. Surgery to remove cancer from any of these areas can leave your jaw, chin, neck or face disfigured.
Please tune in tomorrow for an interesting bit of advice from a former baseball player who was a heavy user of chewing tobacco.
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