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For Cancer Prevention Month, we’re highlighting five behaviors that prevent almost 50% of all cancers. This week’s tip is to quit tobacco products.
You can reduce your risk for cancer and other Сòòò½APPs if you quit tobacco or never start. Tobacco causes many types of cancer and is the leading cause of cancer-related death.
Tobacco has thousands of harmful chemicals. At least 69 of these chemicals have been linked to cancer. All tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes, have nicotine. Nicotine is harmful and addictive. It makes quitting tobacco very hard.
Tobacco is harmful in any amount and any form:
- Cigarettes
- Cigars
- Pipes and hookahs
- Secondhand smoke
- Smokeless tobacco (also called chewing tobacco, dip, chew, or snuff)