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Tobacco and alcohol are the most important oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer risk factors. Mouth cancer is largely a lifestyle disease, meaning that the majority of cases are related to tobacco and alcohol use. Approximately 90% of people with mouth cancer are tobacco users. Smokers are 6 times more likely than nonsmokers to develop mouth cancer. Users of smokeless tobacco have a 50 times more likely chance of developing mouth cancer. Statistics show only 6% of head and neck cancer recurrence in patients who stop smoking in contrast to 37% of head and neck cancer patients who continue smoking developing a second cancer. People who stop using tobacco, even after many years of use, can greatly reduce their risk of all smoking related illnesses, including mouth cancer. One of the best preventive measures to take is to kick the tobacco habit.
Those who both smoke and drink, have a 15 times greater risk of developing mouth cancer than others. Alcohol drinkers are 6 times more likely than nondrinkers to develop mouth cancer. Limit your intake of alcoholic beverages, if you drink at all.
The best way to avoid these cancers is to never start smoking or chewing tobacco in any form. Click here to learn how to stop.
Read information on chewing
tobacco risks or areca, betel nuts, paan and gutka or smoking hookah risks. |
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Questions and Answers
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Dangers
of Smoking
You can eat salad and broccoli until
your head turns green, wear your seatbelt
or bicycle helmet and exercise regularly,
but all your healthy behaviour means
little if you continue to smoke. Most
people know that smoking is bad for
them, but not many people know just
how bad it is.
Facts
about Smoking
This UK health portal makes an excellent
attempt to help smokers stop. It provides
facts about smoking, consequences of
smoking, tobacco dependency, and medicines
to stop smoking. Stopping is a big decision
and the problems of coping with quitting
are recognised. A Smoking Community
of other ex-smokers that encourage one
another has been developed with the
expert advice of a consultant chest
physician and a consultant clinical
psychologist. Try the NetDoctor 90 Day
Smoking Programme here! |
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QUIT
- Helping Smokers to Quit
QUIT is the independent charity whose
aim is to save lives by helping smokers
to stop. QUIT has launched a counselling
by e mail service and their Quitline
telephone service is run entirely by
trained counsellors who offer friendly
help and advice on how to stop smoking.
Quitline is open from 9am -9pm daily,
seven days a week. QUIT also provides
services for minority ethnic languages,
they currently run helplines in Bengali,
Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Turkish
and Kurdish. |
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Giving
Up Smoking
It's not easy... So that's why this
web site is here. Giving up smoking
requires preparation, determination,
and support. This site is here to help
you with each of these. If you're thinking
about giving up, have a look-in. |
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QuitNet:
Smokers Helping Smokers Quit
QuitNet brings proven scientific
methods to the Web to bring support
to smokers whenever they need it. Whether
you're thinking of quitting, actively
trying to quit, or wanting to help a
friend, QuitNet can help... and it's
free! |
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Tobacco
Unwrapped
This visually flashy tobacco website
is from the Health Education Board for
Scotland. It's for health professionals,
smokers who want to give up, young people
and anyone who wants to know more about
tobacco. |
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BBC:
The Addictions Guide
Welcome to the BBC HEALTH's Guide to
Addictions website. It is estimated
that 2 million people in the UK have
an addiction. However, addictions still
remain taboo. |
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Action
on Smoking and Health
ASH works to secure public, media, parliamentary,
local and national Government support
for a comprehensive programme to tackle
the epidemic of tobacco-related disease. |
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Smoking
Cessation links
Use this links section to find other
interesting and helpful websites on
the subject of smoking and tobacco and
'stop smoking' websites. |
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