The widespread availability of smokeless tobacco products, especially in these areas, makes it easier for people to pick up the habit
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Chewing tobacco leads to oral cancers, gum disease, and ulcers in the digestive tract
Another reason may have been to recover from an embarrassment that occurred when the ACS's San Francisco unit awarded tobacco industry ally Willie Brown its Humanitarian of the Year award.45-48 On February 4, 1997, the presidents of the ACS, AHA, and ANR wrote Smoley to express their frustration with the administration's ostensible defense of an industry responsible for the deaths of more than 42,000 Californians each yearthe tobacco industry.49 The three organizations protested the long delay in the production of new media New York Times featuring the infamous Philip Morris memo about Wilson and accusing the Wilson administration of refusing to release On April 15, 1997, the ACS, AHA, and ANR presidents wrote the governor requesting a meeting to discuss their concerns about the performance of his secretary of health and welfare.50 The letter went unanswered for a month