A note from Cleveland Clinic: Oral cancer is a serious illness that if caught early on can be treated successfully
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Hookah (water pipe): Despite the common misconception, the smoke from the hookah contains a significant amount of carcinogenic substances
Poly-tobacco product users reported the highest prevalence of either smell or taste disorder at 19.5% (95% CI: 18.420.5), followed by e-cigarette users at 18.9% (95% CI: 14.623.2), cigarette-only users at 17.7% (95% CI: 16.219.1), and users of other tobacco products (such as cigars, pipes, or smokeless tobacco) at 15.4% (95% CI: 13.816.9)
They looked at how many cigarettes people reported smoking and looked at what happened to those smokers
Researchers can use the estimated mean risk function or BPRF to obtain the risk of an outcome at a given smoking exposure level, as well as uncertainty surrounding that estimate of risk