A sweetened mixture of chewing tobacco, betel nut, and palm nut, originating in India as a breath freshener.
古特卡嚼烟
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It is to be noted that gutkha was banned in Maharashtra on August 1, 2002 for a period of five years but the Supreme Court lifted the ban on August 3, 2004 on the manufacture, sale and purchase of these addictive chewables.
A number of small surveys conducted in schools and colleges in several states of India have shown that 13-50% of students chew pan masala and gutkha on a regular basis.
Dentists and trading standard officers in the United Kingdom are now trying to highlight the health risks involved in chewing tobacco as gutkha slowly makes its way to Europe.
Our junta love to chew pan and gutkha and spit them all over the place.
A rough break up among the various products would read four crores using cigarettes, eight crores beedis and six crores other products like gutkha and Zarda.
But after dark, hawkers and panwallas set up shop along the pathway and happily go about their business selling vada pav, bhel-puri, pan and gutkha.
She said a problem in some parts of the Asian community was not just smoking but chewing tobacco in paan or gutkha - which puts people more at risk of mouth cancer.
It was a small tobacco box which in its heyday, contained some sort of a gutkha or tobacco powder.