The Sheffield Stop Smoking Service gazebo will be on the Moor on Tuesday 15th. Nov. 2005.
You will be able to get professional advice from Zahra (Stop Smoking Adviser) and Ann and Julie from the Oral Health Team.
Mouth cancer kills approximately 1,700 people in the UK each year - that’s one death every five hours .
The numbers have risen alarmingly with a 17 percent increase in five years. About 13,000 people in the UK are now living under the shadow of this dreadful disease.
Smoking is the number one cause of mouth cancer. According to research published in the British Journal of Cancer, cigarette smoke transforms saliva into a deadly cocktail that damages cells in the mouth and can turn them cancerous.
Patients need to be strongly encouraged to give up smoking. They also need to be aware that switching to low-tar cigarettes will not help. Research has found that smokers of ‘light’ cigarettes inhale more smoke from their cigarettes and take longer puffs - resulting in just as many cancer-causing poisons as smokers of regular cigarettes.The Sheffield Stop Smoking Service gazebo will be on the Moor on Tuesday 15th. Nov. 2005.
You will be able to get professional advice from Zahra (Stop Smoking Adviser) and Ann and Julie from the Oral Health Team.
Mouth cancer kills approximately 1,700 people in the UK each year - that’s one death every five hours .
The numbers have risen alarmingly with a 17 percent increase in five years. About 13,000 people in the UK are now living under the shadow of this dreadful disease.
Smoking is the number one cause of mouth cancer. According to research published in the British Journal of Cancer, cigarette smoke transforms saliva into a deadly cocktail that damages cells in the mouth and can turn them cancerous.
Patients need to be strongly encouraged to give up smoking. They also need to be aware that switching to low-tar cigarettes will not help. Research has found that smokers of ‘light’ cigarettes inhale more smoke from their cigarettes and take longer puffs - resulting in just as many cancer-causing poisons as smokers of regular cigarettes
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