ORAL CANCER
(lower lip, jawbone, tongue, lining of mouth)
Minister for Agriculture, Sharad Pawar, was faced with the consequences of decades of indiscriminate pain chewing. His visage still bears testimony of his fight with mouth cancer nine years ago.
Sigmund Freud’s pipe was a signature statement of coolness, but it also gave him cancer of the jaw.
You are in the danger zone if you
- smoke more than two packets a day; smoke cigars, pipes; chew tobacco and gutka, inhale snuff
- drink more than 6 pegs daily. Together alcohol and tobacco create a lethal combination
- suffer oral irritation from sharp edges of teeth, fillings, dentures, pipe stem [click to continue…]
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