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Tobacco users: Look out for stiffness of the jaw, could be cancer

New Delhi:  Regular smokers and those wont to popping little packs of gutka into their mouths need to watch out for a warning signal - stiffening jaw muscles. Oral submucous fibrosis is the pre-cancerous stage



Lalit Kumar dismissed the touted benefits of smokeless tobacco, saying "it is equally bad, there is no difference".

Smoking chillums and hookahs, which is a growing fad in plush bars, is bad too, according to Lalit Kumar.

"It is equally bad. In villages, people smoke chillums and hookahs and cancer is prevalent among them," he said.

"There is not a single thing good about tobacco."

Nearly 90-95 percent of cancer cases in India are related to environment and lifestyle, Lalit Kumar said.