upi.com - EEUU - 10 de Agosto de 2013

Five percent of U.S. teens use smokeless tobacco, same as 2000

BOSTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Some U.S. middle and high school students may set themselves up for an aggressive tobacco-related cancer by using smokeless tobacco, researchers say.

Gregory Connolly of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston said an analysis of 2011 national survey data found more 5 percent of young people were using smokeless tobacco, such as snuff, chew and dipping tobacco -- about the same percentage as it was in 2000.

"We're not seeing a decline in smokeless use, while we are seeing a decline in cigarette smoking among adolescents," Connolly said in a statement. "As clinicians, we have to be concerned that these children are at risk of mouth cancer."

Connolly noted about half of people diagnosed with oral cancer are dead within five years.

The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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