Reverse smoking

Reverse smoking is a kind of smoking where the burnt end of a hand rolled tobacco leaf is put in the mouth rather than the unlit end of the cigar.[1] It is practiced in some parts of Andhra Pradesh, India, Lusaka, Zambia and the Philippines . Reverse smoking is considered to be a risk factor for oral cancer.[2]

## References

1. ↑ Pindborg, Jens J.; Daftary, Dinesh K.; Mehta, Fali S. (1977). "A follow-up study of sixty-one oral dysplastic precancerous lesions in Indian villagers". Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology 43 (3): 383–90. doi:10.1016/0030-4220(77)90325-5. PMID 265042.
2. ↑ Bharath, Tsreenivasa; Kumar, Ngovind Raj; Nagaraja, A; Saraswathi, TR; Babu, Gsuresh; Raju, Pramanjaneya (2015). "Palatal changes of reverse smokers in a rural coastal Andhra population with review of literature". Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology 19 (2): 182–7. doi:10.4103/0973-029X.164530. PMID 26604494.

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