Emphasising the need for India to address flavoured smokeless tobacco with stronger regulation, the authors recommended a ban ...

Up to a third of all oral cancer cases worldwide are linked to chewing, sucking and sniffing tobacco or betel nuts, a major ...

Now in Taiwan, where the nuts are affectionately known as 'Taiwan's chewing gum ... of slaked lime, a betel leaf and flavourings such as cardamom, cinnamon and tobacco. Worryingly, the ...

Wrapped inside a betel leaf and placed in the side of the ... which they are convinced are caused by chewing tobacco. Mouth cancer has a 10-year incubation period. It is very hard to treat and ...

Results revealed that betel nuts, tobacco and alcohol increased the occurrence of those three kinds of cancer but a combination of the three multiplies the risks. The study has shown that chewing ...

“Sharing of betel and its accompanying condiments of dried tobacco, slake lime or chunam and arecanut for a chew remains a cultural expression of friendship and brotherhood in traditional Sri Lankan ...

The Ministry of Health and Welfare has proposed a draft betel nut hazard prevention act (檳榔健康危害防制法), which would list venues where chewing the stimulant is prohibited, and would ban minors and ...

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands has a new law regulating afok or bweesch — lime — that is mostly used in the Pacific islands for betel nut chewing The new CNMI law regulates ...