Rising Mortality from Cancer of the Tongue in Young White Males

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To the Editor: Recently, concern has been raised over the health implications of the increasing use of snuff, especially by children and adolescents.1 Snuff contains amounts of carcinogenic nitrosamines that exceed by orders of magnitude the nitrosamine content of other consumer products.2 , 3 I examined mortality statistics in the United States to determine whether there has been any rise in the rate of cancers of the mouth. The deaths from tongue cancer in white males from 1950 through 1982 were tabulated from the death-certificate tapes of the National Center for Health Statistics. Deaths from tongue cancer for three decades and for . . .

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