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A 34-year-old member asked:

What is worse? chewing or smoking tobacco?

2 doctor answers4 doctors weighed in
Dr. Gurmukh Singh
Pathology 51 years experience
Smoking: Chewing is not without harm. Stay away from tobacco. Tobacco use in any form causes cancer, heat disease, stroke, gangrene and shortens life by about ten years.
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Dr. Dean Giannone
Internal Medicine 27 years experience
Just different.: They cause different types of cancer. Is that a choice you want to make?
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Last updated Nov 28, 2014
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