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What is worse? chewing or smoking tobacco?
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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.
Answered 9/1/2012
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Just different.: They cause different types of cancer. Is that a choice you want to make?
Answered 11/28/2014
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