Remedial measures for tobacco dependence

Madam, Dependence on tobacco products is a well- recognized threat for oral health. Such dependence has been implicated in development of oral pathologies leading to oral cancer. Cancers of the oral cavity are the second most common cancer in Pakistani adult population.1 Factors which have gained global notoriety for causing oral cancer are tobacco, alcohol and nutritional deficiencies. However, the regional variants of tobacco which include bidi, naswar and gutka, are too important to be ignored in our country.