Smokeless tobacco ups oral cancer risk 80 percent: WHO
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 18:14
in Health & Medicine
LONDON (Reuters) - Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by 80 percent, the World Health Organisation's cancer agency said on Tuesday.
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