Chewing Tobacco

Evaluating Risk Factors: Chewing Tobacco

Evaluating your likely current (and near future) state of health means taking into account the risk factors — such as chewing tobacco — that affect you. Our medical diagnosis tool, The Analyst™, identifies major risk factors by asking the right questions.

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If you indicate history of tobacco use, The Analyst™ will ask further questions including this one:

Do you use chewing tobacco?

Possible responses:

→ No / don't know
→ Light use in the past only
→ Heavy use in the past only
→ Light current use
→ Heavy current use

The Diagnostic Process

Based on your response to this question, which may indicate either history of chewing tobacco use or chewing tobacco use, The Analyst™ will use differential diagnosis to consider possibilities such as:

Esophageal Cancer

Laryngeal Cancer

Leukoplakia

Chewing tobacco and snuff play a key role in the development of leukoplakia: Up to 75% of regular users of "smokeless tobacco" products eventually develop leukoplakia where they hold the tobacco against their cheeks.

Mouth Cancer

Chewing tobacco is known to cause cancer of the mouth.

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