Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.
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Chewing tobacco has been identified as a significant risk
factor for this disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that
tobacco consumption, including chewing, is responsible for up to 90 percent
of mouth cancer cases in India. |