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Deadly tobacco's free run.
Byline: Radhika D Srivastava
: Do you know what goes into your mouth when you empty that pack of chewing tobacco? Of course, you don't. Virtually no one knows, and no one seems to care.
The Delhi state government's prevention of food adulteration (PFA) department, the only agency to regulate consumables in the city, has no guidelines on the addictive contents of chewing tobacco pouches. And the department has not tested even a single sample to detect adulteration and impurities.
There is no specification on the quantity of nicotine that can be sold in a pouch. According to medical publications, 5 mg of nicotine can kill within a matter of 20 minutes.
Nevertheless, a large number of brands and an even greater number of fake brands do brisk business every day. The clientele varies from bus drivers, slum dwellers to middle class housewives. A regular gutka or khaini pouch sells for a rupee. The better brands cost up to Rs five for a packet.
Chewing tobacco products are the cheapest. And about 20 per cent of cancer cases in the country are caused due to these products. Delhi state health minister A K Walia had expressed his desire to ban the sale of these products ...
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