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Human papillomavirus infection is of particular relevance

There has been increasing pressure from anti-tobacco groups -- and Congress -- on Major League Baseball to do something about smokeless tobacco use by major leaguers

After 10 years, the risk for death [from] lung cancer is half the risk of current smokers, says Farhad Islami, the senior scientific director for the American Cancer Society, and a researcher who studies cancer risks in various populations There is a similar reduction in risk for other types of smoking-related cancers, such as head, neck, or esophageal cancers, Islami says

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