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[chemhan]

The more immediate effects can disrupt your social life: bad breath and yellowish-brown stains on your teeth. You'll also get mouth sores (about 70% of spit tobacco users have them). But, it gets a lot more serious than that. Consequences of chewing and spitting tobacco include:

cracking and bleeding lips and gums
receding gums, which can eventually make your teeth fall out
increased heart rate, high blood pressure, and irregular heartbeats, all leading to a greater risk of heart attacks and brain damage (from a stroke)
cancer
Oral cancer means cancer of the mouth and can happen in the lips, the tongue, the floor of the mouth, the roof of the mouth, the cheeks, or gums. It's been medically proven that long-time use of chewing tobacco can lead to cancer. But cancer from chewing tobacco doesn't just occur in the mouth. Some of the cancer-causing agents in the tobacco can get into the lining of your stomach, your esophagus, and into your bladder.

[krading]

So don't do it.

[tutsiwarrior]

I used Copenhagen snuff exclusively for over 10 years and still use it when I can find it...preferable to smoking cigarettes...

introducing tobacco (in whatever form) to yer tissues always entails a risk...I lived and worked with folks that use snuff/snus heavily for over 3 years and never heard of serious damage...yeah, it's a nasty habit but so what?

the only disturbing stories you get are from alarmist idiots...

[BLUEEYEDTHAI]

tutsiwarrior, on 2010-01-21 16:38:28, said:

I used Copenhagen snuff exclusively for over 10 years and still use it when I can find it...preferable to smoking cigarettes...

introducing tobacco (in whatever form) to yer tissues always entails a risk...I lived and worked with folks that use snuff/snus heavily for over 3 years and never heard of serious damage...yeah, it's a nasty habit but so what?

the only disturbing stories you get are from alarmist idiots...

Makes you even less attractive to the opposite sex than you already are.

[williamjosh075]

Chewing tobacco or smoking tobacco cigarettes are not good for health and it is hazardous. So avoid using tobacco it gives many drawbacks to your health. It gives many health problems.

[JRinger]

POSITIVE RESULTS FROM CHEWING TOBACCO:

1. Makes watching baseball more exciting and helps you fit-in with other fans.
2. Residue is good for dogs you don't like and help improve your accuracy
3. Instills the "Godfather" look (if applied to both jowels)
4. Alleviates constipation if swallowed regularly

[tutsiwarrior]

yeah...if yew use Copenhagen regularly yew ain't never constipated

however, snoose is much stronger than cigarettes and highly addictive so yew gotta watch out; the withdrawal is unpleasant...and there ain't many places that sell it these days outside of the US...

[midnightjay3]

These are some of the disadvantages in chewing Tobacco

• 90% of lung cancer cases are linked to cigarettes
• Smoking also causes emphysema, bronchitis, and coronary heart disease
• Smoking and chewing tobacco can cause mouth and throat cancer
• Second hand smoke can also cause the above health problems
• Smoking and chewing tobacco can cause periodontal disease

So as early as now QUITE smoking it's for your own good..