High risk of oral cancer in North India

The carcinogenic property of tobacco is well known, even as the production and consumption of tobacco products is popularized worldwide. While the ‘smoking way’ of consumption of tobacco causes high risk of lung carcinoma, the ‘oral way’ primarily poses risk of oral carcinoma in addition to leukoplakia, erythroplakia, submucosal fibrosis, esophageal, hypo-pharyngeal, head and neck cancers.