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Side Effects Of Tobacco Chewing Gum?
i am very much habituated to smoking..but from past 3 months i have stopped smoking...and started tobacco chewing gums..but i have heard even it will cause...some oral cancer..is it true??
Sun, 18 Oct 2009
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Abhyudaya's
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I donot think that nicotine chewing gums causes oral cancer. It is used to stp smoking if it is like that then why they give to stop smoking. The dose of tobacco in the chewing gum is very less. So donot get panic
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shri's
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hi side effects of tobbacco is more let me tell you, it can produce acidity, ulcers, lip cancer, or tongue cancer.
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Piyush Pandey's
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tobacco chewing is the important cause of cancer in the mouth, smoking is the important cause for lung caner. you stoped smoking good but started chewing tobbaco it means you transwered cancer from lungs to mouth
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