Betel Nut And Tobacco
The combination of betel nut and tobacco is heightening dangers to health because both substances contain cancer causing agents and are addictive the world health organisation who says.
Betel nut and tobacco. Betel nut has a long history in south and southeast asia and the pacific basin. In guam and other pacific islands its use can be traced back as far as 2000 years. The betel piper betle is a vine belonging to the piperaceae family which includes pepper and kava. Betel leaf is mostly consumed in asia and elsewhere in the world by some asian emigrants as betel quid or in paan with areca nut andor tobacco.
In palau betel nut is chewed with lime piper leaf and nowadays with the addition of tobacco. Older and younger generations alike enjoy the use of betel nut which is readily available at stores and markets. Unlike in papua new guinea and the solomon islands where the inner areca nut is used in. Cancer of the oesophagus is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in males in assam in north eastern india and ranks second for females.
The chewing of betel nut with or without tobacco and prepared in various ways is a common practice in the region and a casecontrol study has been designed to study the pattern of risk associated with.