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A research study from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine has linked second-hand smoke to a higher risk of cavities in otherwise healthy teeth.
According to Dr. Taru Kinnunen, director of the Tobacco Dependence Treatment and Research Program at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, smokers will lose their teeth much earlier than non-smokers, and their second-hand smoke could be causing cavities in children.
"What we associate tobacco use with is cancer," said Dr. Kinnunen, "but tobacco use can cause lesions in the mouth and cause deterioration in (the) gums. When someone exhales, smoke still gets into your nasal cavities and oral cavities and it changes the constitution of saliva."
Speaking at the University of Manitoba (Canada) annual research day, Dr. Kinnunen said that a global epidemic of cigarettes still exists, and even in North America and Western Europe where cigarette smoking has declined, there is an increasing use of products such as smokeless tobacco and snuff.
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Cigarette smoking does not just kill our race but all that is living on this planet. If there is food chain there is also an activity reciprocal to that where everyone dies. First on the chain is a man smoking, and then the smoke gets inhaled by other people, then the environment, and finally the planet with piles of cigarette butts! Do you get the picture? Anyway, in resolving this addiction, there are now vaporizers which can a man to gradually quit the bad habit.
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