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Gutka: a major new tobacco hazard in India
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What does one do with a newly introduced food product that is
industrially manufactured and commercially marketed on a large scale,
but has been shown conclusively to cause serious life threatening disease? The solution seems obvious
ban such a product. The process however, can be far more difficult than one would envisage.
Gutka in India is one example. It is a
generic name for a product that contains tobacco, areca nut, and
several other substances in powdered or granulated form and is sold in
small aluminum foil sachets. The only known use of this product is that
it is put in the mouth and then chewed and sucked. Later, it is
generally spat out, or sometimes swallowed. As a commercial product,
gutka was introduced less than three decades
back, but today there are thousands of manufacturers ranging from small
to very large, with a combined annual turnover in the order
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