Due to lack of moral values youths are fast becoming tobacco smokers and gutka eaters. Tobacco smoking burns health and life. Poisonous gutka is being consumed by boys and girls on a large scale. Medical researches bear testimony to the fact that main causes of mouth and throat cancer are smoking tobacco and eating gutka. Today there are five lakh mouth and throat cancer patients in India. Ninety per cent of these are cigarettes and bidi smokers and gutka eaters. Tobacco smokers’ smoke is injurious for non-smokers also.
Tobacco and gutka are grave threats to health and lives. Moreover, it is a threat to India’s economy and progress. We should create awareness, particularly among students and youth, about the harmful effects of tobacco smoking and gutka eating. Central and state governments should ban smoking tobacco and eating gutka.
G. Hasnain Kaif
Bhandara, M.S.