Part of this may be due to new smoking bans and the resulting marketing efforts by tobacco companies to push smokeless tobacco as an alternative product that can be used anytime anywhere. Whatever the case, the study concluded that the trend was more prominent among young adults and likely will have future health-care implications. The oral cancer connection According to Heffner, smokeless tobacco contains 30 known carcinogens and causes numerous cancers including mouth, tongue, cheek, gum, throat, esophageal and pancreatic
They contain nicotine, a highly addictive substance that can adversely affect fetal development in pregnancy as well as negatively affect brain development in children and adolescents.
nAChR, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
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