1Prof & Head, Dept. of Periodontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow
2Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow
3Prof, Dept. of Periodontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow
4Reader, Dept. of Periodontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow
5Post graduate, Dept. of Periodontology and Implantology, Sardar Patel Dental College, Lucknow
Online published on 13 February, 2013.
Tobacco use for years has been acknowledged as a filthy habit, a corrupting addiction, and the greatest disease-producing product known to man and has been associated with oral cancer over the decades. Smokeless tobacco comes in two forms: chewing tobacco and snuff. Though it does not produce heat as compared to that produced by smoking forms of tobacco, its ill effects are no less. Addicts get a continuous or an instant "high" depending on the type of product they are using because of the nicotine present in it. Various nuclear products, pesticides and carcinogens are used in its production. To eradicate this health hazard from within our society a keen determination, awareness, education by dental specialists and cooperation from the government organizations is the need of the hour.
Chewing tobacco, snuff, Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines (TSNs), squamous cell carcinoma, bupropion hydrochloride