Female Speaker: Is smoking cigars or using chewing tobacco better than smoking cigarettes? Gwendolyn Francavillo: If you are using tobacco is any form you still have a risk of getting cancer. Pre-cancer risk counts with sores within your mouth, it can also be yellowing of your teeth. It could be gum cancer or disease, of course it could be tongue cancer, a throat cancer. So there are a lot of risks associated with using tobacco even if you are not smoking it into your lungs.