It isn't a technical or medical term, so it means a range of things. Generally, it is used to mean something ranging from an anxiety attack, to a deep depression where a person truly cannot be productive, through to a complete break from reality requiring hospitalization. Written Jul 29, 2013 Â· View Upvotes.
Approximately 90 percent of those diagnosed with oral cancer or pharyngeal cancer (including cancer of the mouth, tongue, lips, throat, parts for the nose, and larynx) are tobacco users. Tobacco. All forms of tobacco increase a person's risk of oral cancer.
This has caused a backlash among smokers who mock the health statistics and, persuasively to some, attribute most of smoking's ills to bad genetics. A reexamination of the statistics might help to clear the air. Didn't kill grandpa. Surprisingly, fewer than 10 percent of lifelong smokers will get lung cancer. Fewer yet will contract the long list of other cancers, such as throat or mouth cancers. In the game of risk, you're more likely to have a condom break than to get cancer from smoking.