Smokeless Tobacco

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Smokeless tobacco is bad for your heath; and it can cause cancer in your mouth. There are many people using it and there are many unwanted side effects that can show up unexpectedly. Sean Marsee was on of those persons that smokeless tobacco affected his life.

Smokeless tobacco is a time bomb for the mouth, and there are more and more people using smokeless tobacco products every year. For example, each year we have about 29,000 new cases of oral cancer and 9,000 deaths in this country. When you turn on the T.V. or go to the store and see an ad for any kind of smokeless tobacco, i.e. snuff, chew, or dip, there are no warning labels on the package. The person does not know the effects smokeless tobacco will have on them if there is no warning label. At the age of eighteen Sean had the mouth of a seventy-five year old man, who had been chewing since he was three years old.

Sean had been chewing for only five years; no one told him the effects of smokeless tobacco on his body. Furthermore, there are now six to ten million consumers of smokeless tobacco, and sales are raising eight percent annually. This fact shows that people do not know about or understand the effects of smokeless tobacco on the human body. At this rate there will be more and more cases of mouth related cancer because of smokeless tobacco, if no one gets out there and talks about it. There are more and more people using smokeless tobacco products, smokeless tobacco is a time bomb for the mouth and it could go off any time.

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