Chewing tobacco is not a safe alternative to cigarettes.  It's deadly.  Thousands of spit tobacco users die from oral cancer every year.  If you think chewing tobacco is safe, you don't know spit.

Through With Chew Week is the third full week of February and The Great American Spit Out is Thursday of TWC Week.  This is a day to quit spit for a day or quit for good. 

Help is available to help you quit any time.  Call the Wyoming Quit Tobacco Program at 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) or log onto wy.quitnet.com.

Smokeless tobacco cessation reduces the risks associated with its use. These risks include:

1) Exposure to 28 cancer-causing agents, including those that cause cancers of the mouth, esophagus, and pancreas;

 2) Increased risk of coronary artery disease;

3) Delayed healing of injuries and wounds;

4) Gum recession, resulting in bone loss and decay of exposed tooth roots; and

5) Risk of having leukoplakia, (i.e., lesions of soft tissue that can become cancerous).