Ban on Gutka
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The document discusses the harms of gutka use, which includes cancer risks and negative health, social, and economic impacts. It notes that gutka contains carcinogens like tobacco and is readily available and affordable. While a lucrative industry, gutka use often begins at a young age and is difficult to quit. The document calls for banning gutka to protect public health and the environment.
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Ban on Gutka
- 2. Presented by: Group : A (BBA) Presented to : Sir Abdul Allah Team Members: Zaib Mirza Owais Khan Amir Ali Faheem Shams
- 5. Gutka is a powdery, granular light brownish to white substance. Within moments, the gutka begins to dissolve and turn deep red in color. It is sold in small aluminum foil sachets. The only known use of this product is that it is put in the mouth and then chewed and sucked.
- 6. Betel Nuts Limestone Katha Tobacco Chaliya Crushed glass Lime used for flavoring
- 7. Mouth Cancer Stomach cancer Tongue Cancer Heart diseases Eyesight Problem Blood Pressure Psychological problem
- 21. Lead to loss of appetite, promote unusual sleep patterns, and loss of concentration. Prominently stained teeth ranging from dirty yellowish-orange to reddish-black. Generally spat onto a wall or at the ground, causing an unsightly red stain that is quite resistant to the elements. More than 2,500 people in our country die every day due to diseases caused by tobacco and its related products. Cancer to a person devastates his family as all savings are spent on the treatment of the disease.
- 23. Gutkha use can begin at a very young age. Due to its often Social custom does not permit children to eat gutka flavourful taste, easy so eventually becomes availability and another habit tough to quit. cheapness Exhibit Symptoms of precancerous cancer appear by lesions at a high school or very early age college age. as a result.
- 24. Guthka Industry • The consumer base of tobacco in India stands at 34.6% of all adults . while 75% of Indian tobacco consumers use non‐smoking tobacco products such as gutkha and paan masala. • The gutkha market in India is worth INR150bn ‐ INR 200bn. Sachets of several brands are sold through paan shops thus easily accessible to everyone.
- 25. Why the BAN?? A Supreme Court ruling states that since pan masala, gutkha Gutkha is proved to and supari are eaten contain carcinogens for taste and nourishment, they are all considered food. Rule 2.3.4 of the Food Safety and Standards Subsequently various (Prohibition and states have banned Restrictions on Sales) the sale, manufacture Regulations, 2011. and distribution of under centrally gutkha enacted FSR act 2011
- 28. What we have observed is that there are so many children having habit of gutkha. Children of our society start this habbit at very early age. Because guthkha’s cost is very much affordable for them. Gutkha is available from Rs 5 /- in the market.
- 29. Parent even avoid to oppose them because most of the time they don’t understand that there children are having gutkha. And most of the children start their habit with this and they may go up to drugs, and it is even costly, for getting this they start stoling things from home & neighbored. After some time we find them becoming big criminals
- 30. The injurious substance is being sold at thousands of ‘paan shops’ in the city uninterruptedly. A private TV channel reported that 30 percent of men, women and children in Karachi are habitual and addicted to the use of the substance. They said that 18 town and cantonment areas of the city are selling Gutka at liberty and without fear of any intervention from any authority.
- 32. E.g. Monthly Income: Rs/=12000 Cost of gutka per Packet: 10 Consumption of gutka per day: 10*10=100 packet Total money spent on gutka: 3000
- 33. Suppose one person is eating 25 pouches in a day and is taking pouch of rs.8/- Then he is wasting his Rs.200/- on it. In this Rs.200/- he can buy around ½ kg almonds or Kajus.
- 34. We will try to help people from leaving their this bad habit. If they wish we would even use their money in some useful things like saving children from this habit. To stop child labor. To feed needed people. To provide educational kits to poor & needy people.
- 39. To stop habit of gutka eater, We will try to stop people from gutka eating. Gutkha may cause cancer to eater but it is Spoiling our society, this is a slow poison.
- 40. If we consider cost of Gutkha Pouch @ 1/- one person spend 1x25x365=9125/-per year, and @ 4/- per pouch the cost goes to 4x25x365=36500/- ,and @ 8/- the cost goes to 8x25x365=73000/-. So gutkha eater stops his habit and try to help people he can feed 6 persons twice a day in his cost of purchasing gutkha pouches.
- 41. Government should take steps to completely ban use of the substance. Gutka seriously affects environment in which people breathe, but those taking it do not refrain from the habit. The news report stresses the need to take emergent steps to practically disallow and discourage use of Gutka and safe people from indulging in the habit.