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Smokeless Tobacco - an Inferno without Smoke - a Case Series


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1 Dept. of Periodontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow, India
     

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Tobacco use for years has been acknowledged as a filthy habit, a corrupting addiction, and the greatest disease-producing product known to man and has been associated with oral cancer over the decades. Smokeless tobacco comes in two forms: chewing tobacco and snuff. Though it does not produce heat as compared to that produced by smoking forms of tobacco, its ill effects are no less. Addicts get a continuous or an instant "high" depending on the type of product they are using because of the nicotine present in it. Various nuclear products, pesticides and carcinogens are used in its production. To eradicate this health hazard from within our society a keen determination, awareness, education by dental specialists and cooperation from the government organizations is the need of the hour.

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Chewing Tobacco, Snuff, Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines (TSNs), Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Bupropion Hydrochloride
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Authors

Pradeep Tandon
Dept. of Periodontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow, India
Chetan Chandra
Dept. of Periodontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow, India
K.K. Gupta
Dept. of Periodontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow, India
Vinod Kumar
Dept. of Periodontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow, India
Snehi Kumar
Dept. of Periodontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow, India

Abstract


Tobacco use for years has been acknowledged as a filthy habit, a corrupting addiction, and the greatest disease-producing product known to man and has been associated with oral cancer over the decades. Smokeless tobacco comes in two forms: chewing tobacco and snuff. Though it does not produce heat as compared to that produced by smoking forms of tobacco, its ill effects are no less. Addicts get a continuous or an instant "high" depending on the type of product they are using because of the nicotine present in it. Various nuclear products, pesticides and carcinogens are used in its production. To eradicate this health hazard from within our society a keen determination, awareness, education by dental specialists and cooperation from the government organizations is the need of the hour.

Keywords


Chewing Tobacco, Snuff, Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines (TSNs), Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Bupropion Hydrochloride

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