How soon can mouth cancer develop from using smokeless tobacco?
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 at
6:36 am
bligi3 asked:
I’m 17, been chewing for a month or two now (1-4 times daily, usually 1-2). I understand that it irritates the mouth, but how soon can actual cancer start to develop?
I pinch off to the sides of my mouth, switching back a fourth, and i have a little sore like thing on each side (fairly small). Both are slightly brown-ish and look a little like cold sores (but obviously aren’t).
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Filed under: Cancer
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How long can I smoke?
your guess is as good as mine. It could be within a year to ten years. But just know that tobacco products changes things in your mouth pretty fast. I bet you didn’t know that they put sugar in chewing tobacco. That’s to make it taste better.
How long can I smoke?
I really do not think cancer is going to get started in just a month, but who knows? Maybe you’ll set a record? Let’s not go there! Cancer normally would take years to develop and I have never heard of it happening in a month or twelve and I am 66 years old. Why wait for it to happen? I mean looking at your post, you write like you have smarts, not like a lot of the juveniles you see here with the mis-spelled words and lousy sentence structure. After all the warnings about cancer and tobacco, why do it? Oral cancer is a particularly nasty form of cancer and it would be such a waste for you to develop it when you could so easily avoid it. I know, I know, you didn’t ask for a lecture but, I am 66 years old and I have cancer. I am fighting every day to quit a cigarette habit that started with me over 50 years ago when tobacco was super cool. I would like very much to know that just one person like you quit the tobacco and improved his chances of NOT getting cancer because of something I said. Best of luck to you,