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Smoke clouds are not the only things that can affect your life. Scroll down to see the facts on smokeless tobacco products.

Chewing can cause tooth decay, yellow teeth, and even gum disease.

World Health Organization. IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Volume 89: Smokeless Tobacco and Some Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines. Lyon (France): World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2007

Chewing tobacco increases risk of oral cancer by 80%.

Teenagers that chew are more likely to start experimenting with smoking cigarettes.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA Parental Advisory on Flavored Tobacco Products – What You Need To Know. FDA. 7 March 2011. [accessed 2014 Oct http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/ProtectingKidsfromTobacco/FlavoredTobacco/ucm183196.html]

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Chewing tobacco has over 4,000 chemicals.

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National Cancer Institute (NCI), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Smokeless Tobacco and Public Health: A Global Perspective. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. NIH Publication No. 14-7983; 2014.

Tobacco fries dopamine receptors that decrease your sense of:





U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2010

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