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...g disease, heart disease, and all different types of cancers. If you use smokeless tobacco causes cancer of the mouth (lip, tongue, and cheek) and throat cancers, leukoplokia, heart disease, and also tooth & gum disease. Although people are aware of these diseases they continue to use tobacco products! The question is why? Some people say that once they have tried a tobacco product once, the next time it is offered it's not as hard to turn down. When I interviewed a smoker they had told me that the reason they started smoking was because an older sibling influenced them. Sometimes non-smokers wonder why people even get into using products that they know can kill them, but teens these days never think it is going to happen to them. Maybe if they knew this they would change their perspective a little bit. Smoking on average reduces adult life expectancy by at least 14 years? (Notes.) Or about 4 million people die a year from tobacco related diseases, and did you know that smoking kills more people then AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, homicide, and drug abuse, each year. Combined. (Notes.) Yet with all these facts about tobacco companies promote their products as if they are harmless. One big name company is Phillip Morris, its one of the nations largest cigarette companies. They're average income per year is about 15.1 billion dollars. The company spends over 44.5 million dollars on advertising alone. Taking things to court. The case involved a challenge by Philip Morris USA to a $6.7 million award in favor of New York's Empire Health Choice, previously known as Blue Cross-Blue Shield. That verdict was returned by a federal jury in Brooklyn in Jun...