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Even 10-year-old Indians are starting to use smokeless tobacco. 4 reasons behind it

Easy availability of flavoured, cheap tobacco products, exposure to enticing marketing, and misperception about their harms promote SLT use among the...

20.03.2024 10

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No gutkha, zarda, or khaini is ‘safe’. But here’s how their cancer-causing risk can be reduced

There are grassroots methods to control the production of carcinogens in smokeless tobacco products. And these can be implemented at different stages...

15.02.2024 10

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Areca Nut isn’t a harmless sweet ‘supari’. Govt must regulate it like tobacco

The International Agency for Research on Cancer reported that the risk of oral cancer is higher for individuals who used Areca Nut and Paan.

31.01.2024 20

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