Risk factors include smoking, alcohol, human papillomavirus infection, sun exposure and chewing tobacco or similar substances.

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Virtually everyone diagnosed with Buerger's disease smokes cigarettes or uses other forms of tobacco, such as chewing tobacco.

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Chewing tobacco doubled the chances of having a heart attack, as did smoking eight to 10 cigarettes a day.

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As well as chewing tobacco, other risk factors include heavy conventional smoking, drinking.

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In England, the highest proportion of self-reported use of chewing tobacco is among Bangladeshi women, at 19%, followed by Bangladeshi men at 9%.

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The American Cancer Society is pushing to make New York the first state to enact a comprehensive restriction on the sale of candy- and fruit-flavored cigarillos, chewing tobacco and tobacco used in water pipes.

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Ironically, tobacco-chewing Wagner forced the tobacco company to pull his image from the card because he did not believe in promoting cigarettes to children.

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Food, tobacco and chewing gum properties stayed functional along with IBM, American Can and Coca-Cola.

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Her tobacco-chewing friends had chased him into his snow fort, and at the moment when he felt safest, in the cool white hollow, they had jumped on the roof, burying him.

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They were cautioned against alcohol, tobacco, and gum chewing, and were told that they should consider it a miracle of God if any decent man ever wanted to marry them.

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At first, tobacco was produced mainly for pipe-smoking, chewing, and snuff.

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