Graphic oral cancer warning

Smokers – watch out for mouth and throat cancer. It may very get you. This is the bleak warning in the in the latest campaign to warn smokers that they are at risk of getting mouth and throat cancer.
The latest data from The Cancer Council Victoria shows that smokers are up to 10 times more likely to die from mouth and throat cancer than non-smokers. And, nearly five Victorians a week are diagnosed with mouth cancer.
The release of the data coincided with the launch of a confronting new quit smoking TV advertisement.

ADAVB member Dr John O’Grady, a dental oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Centre, who was consulted about the advertisement, told the audience that smoking had potentially devastating effects on the mouth.nt depicting a woman with mouth cancer now being screened nationally.

The Age carried this story http://http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/exsmoker-finds-cancer-warning-is-hard-to-utter/2006/07/26/1153816253354.html This was the second consecutive day that The Age has published a dental story.