What is it about?

Chewable tobacco is marketed in different forms of concoctions. All forms and their ingredients have been researched and found to be destructive at molecular level causing oral cancer

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Why is it important?

Oral cancer is becoming an epidemic and we need to create an awareness

Perspectives

This article is highlighting various aspects associated with chewable tobacco. Since tobacco smoking has been declared harmful, people have switched to chewable tobacco considering it harmless, however it is more harmful since absorption through oral mucosa is faster. Secondly, it is cheaper and sold around the world. Earlier it was ethnicity specific now it is gaining popularity among others. Hence we can say oral cancer is crossing borders.

Saeeda Baig
Ziauddin University

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This page is a summary of: Molecular Pathogenesis of Chewable Tobacco, Journal of College of Physicians And Surgeons Pakistan, May 2018, College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan,
DOI: 10.29271/jcpsp.2018.05.381.
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