Can you still get cancer from only occasionally using chewing tobacco?

Statistically, the longer you use any form of tobacco product, the more likely you are to develop the cancers most common for that kind of product. That does not mean that occasional use is safe. For one thing, some people are more prone to developing cancers than others. There is much we do not know. If you are not yet addicted to nicotine, we would suggest not becoming so.