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	Sweet but Deadly Addiction is Seizing the Young in India
		Gutka could be used at will, at work or at home or at school, and it was used, in very large quantities.
		Gutka manufacturers contend that the ban stemmed less from concern about children than from a desire to protect cigarette makers, who are fighting for market share.
		Gutka manufacturers managed to erase whatever stigma was tied to using tobacco with paan by marketing campaigns that made gutka use glamorous and socially acceptable.
	www.oralcancerfoundation.org /news/story.asp?newsId=24 (1202 words)

	Gutka
		Gutka is a sweet, flavorful tobacco product manufactured in India and exported to a few other countries.
		Social custom does not permit children in India to smoke cigarettes, so gutka use, being all but invisible to others, is the method of choice.
		Maharashtra State[?] has placed a five year ban on all use of gutka (as a potentially hazardous foodstuff), but an active fl market persists.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gu/Gutka.html (155 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gutka (also spelled gutkha, guttkha, guthka) is a preparation of crushed betel nut, tobacco, and sweet or savory flavorings.
		The gutka, a powdery, granular white substance, is placed between the bottom lip and the gum, or under the tongue.
		Highly addictive and a known carcinogen, gutka is currently the subject of much controversy in India.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=gutka (450 words)

	The News - International
		A 65-year-old retired government servant and a resident of Mehmoodabad, Zafar Ali, told The News that in 1992 he was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus due to massive consumption of betel nuts and paan.
		Gutka itself is a mixture of ground betel nuts (supari), tobacco and flavourings.
		He disclosed that he had been a regular chewer of gutka for the past five years and was not aware of the severe impacts it has on oral health.
	www.thenews.com.pk /daily_detail.asp?id=10947 (761 words)

	Betel Quid with Tobacco or Gutka \| Factsheet \| TIPS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Betel quid with tobacco, also known as gutka (ghutka or gutkha) is a dry, relatively nonperishable commercial preparation that consists of betel leaf (Piper betle), tobacco, areca nut (Areca catechu), catechu (extract of the Acacia catechu tree), and slaked lime (calcium hydroxide).
		Gutka is primarily consumed in the Indian sub—continent (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh).
		Gutka use is currently not monitored in the United States.
	www.cdc.gov /tobacco/factsheets/BetelQuidTobacco_factsheet.htm (456 words)

	The News - International
		Numerous bans have been enforced on the sale of gutka in the last few years but to no avail, with sales eventually continuing in various parts of the city due to a lack of monitoring and spot-checks in order to curtail the supply and sale of the banned items.
		There are two types of gutkas: Powdered gutka, available in the form of packets, is mostly dried up with the help of chemicals and catechu is not used in it.
		The reason for using gutka might vary from person to person, but most of the people use it because it is cheaper and longer-lasting compared to paan and other tobacco-based items, he told this correspondent.
	www.thenews.com.pk /daily_detail.asp?id=27771&cid=1110209661&ei=o18sRbi6PLiWaby8yJsM (1056 words)

	Children suckers for cancer as doctors decry a sweet treat - smh.com.au
		But what has prompted particular concern here is the way that in the past 10 years, gutka - as portable as chewing gum and sometimes as sweet as lollies - has found its way into the mouths of Indian children.
		Young people have become gutka consumers in large numbers, and they have become an alarming avant-garde in what doctors say is an oral cancer epidemic.
		The ban's critics, gutka manufacturers among them, argue that it is like using a finger to plug a leaking dam: countless other tobacco products, ranging from cigarettes to mishri - a tobacco paste that many poor women here believe is good for the teeth - remain on the market.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/13/1029113929124.html (581 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The petitioner contended that though the whitening agents, mixed with tobacco to prepare gutka, have been banned under the provisions of the Food Adulteration Act 1954, ?nearly all leading manufacturers use such chemicals to avoid occurrence of red colour at the time of chewing?.
		However, the gutka lobby challenged this and said it was unfair that the sale of the product was banned in some states and not in others.
		Gutka is taken orally and is, therefore, technically regarded as a food product.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050212/asp/nation/story_4368952.asp (326 words)

	The Hindu : National : Gutka ban gives perfume makers a bad time
		KANNAUJ: Perfume manufacturing industry in Kannauj district of Uttar Pradesh is having a difficult time due to the ban on gutka by several states by Government.
		The banning of tobacco has highly affected the sale of perfumes or `itra', which was earlier used in the manufacturing of tobacco.
		The perfumers of Kannauj say that almost 70 per cent of the production is consumed by the gutka industry, while about 30 per cent is used by the cosmetic industry.
	www.hindu.com /2005/07/06/stories/2005070613290300.htm (585 words)

	Dangerous Form Of Tobacco, Causing Mouth Cancer in Pakistan .::. Indus SRC
		About 80% people of a coastal village, "Ibrahim Haidrey" are reported, addicted of "Gutka", due to which, according to local doctors, many mouth diseases like Submucus, Fibrosis, Squamous cell carcinoma, Mouth and tongue ulcer, Peptic ulcer are spreading widely in Sindh, the southern province of Pakistan.
		Gutka, a form of tobacco, consists of betel nuts, lime water, opium, different kinds of tobacco, flavour of sweetener, and peppermint, etc. Interesting thing is that people use it as a treatment to teeth ache.
		Gutka use was started in Pakistan after 1971, when Pakistan’s supply of betel nuts and leaf to Bangladesh and India was suspended after the war, and people started using it in access here.
	www31.brinkster.com /induspak/MouthCancer.htm (630 words)

	Gutka - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
		Keeping or carrying of gutkas must have gained greater vogue among the Sikhs during the early eighteenth century when disturbed conditions forced them to be ever on the move.
		Gutkas became really popular with the advent of the printing press and the rise of the Singh Sabha movement during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
		The most common were Nitnem gutkas, which contained Banis meant to be recited daily, namely Japji, Jaap, Sawayya, Anand for the morning, Sodar Rehras and Benti Chaupai for the evening and Sohila at bedtime.
	www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Gutka (284 words)

	Paanwallahs, Gutka and a Tory Leadership Candidate
		Thousands of Gutka chewers went without their favorite pouches on Thursday August 1st as Maharashtra began implementing its blanket ban on chewing and sale of Gutka in Maharashtra.
		A survey done by the Indian Dental Association found that 10%-40% of school students and 70% of students in colleges in Mumbai chew gutka and paan masala.
		Gutka, a cocktail of carcinogens contains many unhealthy addictives like magnesium carbonate, Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol along with harmful perfumery compounds like Musk Ketones and other injurious fragrance compounds, which are not safe even in toiletries and is one of the major causes of Oral cancer in the country.
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/gutka.html (960 words)

	Sweet and Deadly Tobacco Product Addicts Youth [08/14/02]
		BOMBAY, Aug. 6 — Promoted by a slick and many-tentacled advertising campaign, gutka, an indigenous form of smokeless tobacco, has become a fixture in the mouths of millions of Indians over the last two decades.
		But what has prompted particular concern here is the way that in the last 10 years, gutka — as portable as chewing gum and sometimes as sweet as candy — has found its way into the mouths of Indian children.
		Sales of gutka and its tobaccoless counterpart, paan masala, are now more than $1 billion a year, having quintupled during the 1990's.
	www.no-smoking.org /august02/08-14-02-3.html (1153 words)

	addiction to smokeless tobacco
		Gutka could be used at will, at work or at home or at
		gutka is banned, cigarettes should be as well.
		Gutka is seen by doctors as particularly insidious because
	www.vepachedu.org /addiction.html (924 words)

	Delhi HC seeks clarification whether gutka is a trade mark - News.Indlaw.com
		Justice S N Kapoor of the Delhi High Court has asked the assistant registrar of trade marks (ARTM) to clarify whether the word gutka is a generic name for tobacco or whether it is an invention over which the innovator has exclusive rights.
		Prince Gutka had claimed that it had an exclusive right over the gutka as a trade mark claiming that it had "invented" its use for pan masala, ilachi, supari in 1971.
		Prince Gutka was the first to apply for the trade mark before the ARTM in 1977, according to its counsel, Mohan Singh.
	www.indlawnews.com /news2k-1429 (252 words)

	1 - Number One News Resource of Pakistan - The News - Jang Group
		It was pointed out that he was submitted a report by District Police Officer, Thatta, about the ban of gutka sales.
		Gutka is known to be an extremely dangerous product which is inevitably injurious to health.
		He has further ordered that information on the confiscation of gutka and its salesmen be reported to him on a monthly basis.
	jang.com.pk /thenews/jan2006-daily/31-01-2006/metro/k8.htm (276 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Jamshedpur
		Different gul and gutka companies had moved court, arguing that the state government did not have the authority to ban the sale of the products.
		The petitioners stated that the Centre in 1992 had imposed a ban on sale of certain cosmetic products, and the state government?s notification is illegal.
		Ever since the ban was implemented, the gutkas in the betel shops had become a rare sight.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050308/asp/jamshedpur/story_4466453.asp (342 words)

	Nigerian national held for cyber crime; Fake railway ticket network unearthed in Patna; Gutka kings reach 11 crore ...
		I used to do whatever they told me. I have no other role in it." The fake tickets made by the gang were the exact replica of the original ones as attention was paid even on minute details while printing the tickets.
		According to a TV report, both Dhariwal and Joshi are said to have approached Dawood first in Dubai and then in Karachi to settle their dispute.
		Mumbai police have reportedly asked the CBI to step in and investigate the Gutka kings nexious with the underworld on the basis of this fresh disclosure.
	www.indiatraveltimes.com /crime/crime2005/feb05.html (1251 words)

	Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy \| Full text \| Socio-demographic correlates of betel, areca and ...
		Use of paan, chaalia, gutka, niswar and tumbaku is acceptable in Pakistan and is considered a normal cultural practice.
		This cross-sectional study was carried out to understand the relation of socio-demographic factors for the consumption of paan, chaalia, gutka, niswar and tumbaku in Pakistani population.
		Higher prevalence of chaalia and gutka use among youth was demonstrated by this study.
	www.substanceabusepolicy.com /content/1/1/10 (3445 words)

	GLOBALink - 03rd August 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Anti-tobacco crusader Dr Kalyan Gangwal who lobbied for effecting the ban on gutka in the state, said the Supreme Court order lifting the prohibition on manufacturing and sale could prove to be disastrous to the people of the state, particularly the younger generation.
		While the word is spreading fast that gutka is back, after the apex court on Monday ruled that states do not have the authority to prohibit manufacture and sale of such items, a large section of the paanwallas said they knew for sure, that the ban wouldn't have lasted long, anyways.
		Arvind Singh, a pan stall owner near E-Square multiplex on the university road, said although sale of gutka was banned by the state, similar other noxious substances, including 'supari mix' were available over the counter.
	www.globalink.org /45549 (1278 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The nexus of the two gutka barons with D-Company, exposed two months ago, is snowballing into a major scandal.
		But the names of the two gutka barons — Rasiklal Dhariwal, owner of the Manikchand brand, and JM Joshi, the owner of Goa Gutka — do not figure in the case.
		Joshi appointed Saiyyed as the distributor of Goa Gutka for the state of Andhra Pradesh in 1996.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main10.asp?filename=ts022605A_Mouthful.asp (1408 words)

	SC lifts ban on gutka-Pune-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		"The state had enforced the ban on manufacture and sale of gutka in interest of public health, and we will request the court to review the decision in the greater interests of the society," he said.
		Expressing serious concern that the court order will particularly put the younger generation at risks to the carcinogenic gutka, Deshmukh said it is the responsibility of the union government also to enforce a ban on such harmful products.
		The minister said the apex court judgement was entirely taken on "technical basis", and hence it would urge the Centre to include the ban of gutka and pan masala in the new central Act related to tobbaco, so that the ban is enforced throughout the country.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/799797.cms (409 words)

	Exclusive: Centre proposes to ban gutka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Highly placed sources told this website’s newspaper that the Minister has decided to take head on the powerful gutka lobby, ever since he became the minister, to protect public from the evil and side-effects of tobacco products.
		Minister is said to have given his nod for slapping a ban on manufacture of gutka by bringing amendments to the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955.
		The draft notification of the rules has been sent to the Law Ministry for its approval, after which the rules will be notified for seeking objections and suggestions from the public and others concerned.
	www.tobacco.org /news/207187.html (153 words)

	Sahaj Dental Clinic, Allahabad, UP(India) - Oral Cancer, lung, breast, cervix, gutka, tobacco, smoking
		As much as 7% of all cancer deaths in males 4% in females have been reported to be due to oral cancer.
		The figure continues to rise rapidly because of bad oral habits such as chewing of gutka, tobacco and smoking among 64,460 cases reported each year.
		A white or red patch in the mouth or on the tongue, a painless ulcer which doesn't heal for over two weeks, difficulty in eating, drinking and speaking are some of the early signs of oral cancer.
	www.sahajdental.com /oral_cancer.htm (225 words)

	CBI to brain-map Gutka baron
		The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to conduct a brain mapping test of Goa Gutka owner J M Joshi in connection with the alleged smuggling of gutka machines to Pakistan and links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
		They said the CBI was still awaiting the results of the polygraphic tests though prima-facie it seemed that the gutka baron had not spoken the complete truth.
		Ansari and Panchariya, who named gutka barons Rasiklal Manickchand Dhariwal of the Manickchand group and J M Joshi, owner of Goa Gutka, had told the Mumbai police that they had taken the machinery to Karachi through a Gulf country.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/mar/09gutka.htm (301 words)

	‘Don’t impose blanket ban on gutka’ - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		No harmful substance has been used in the manufacture of areca and the addiction of gutka is not because of areca but the presence of tobacco and other harmful ingredients in it.
		The ban on gutka will only lead to the direct consumption of unprocessed tobacco which would be more harmful, it said.
		The government has insisted on higher sales targets on liqour which is more harmful than gutka, the association alleged and suggested to initiate research through application of modern biotechnology to eliminate the harmful effects of the ingredients in gutka.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/oct212006/district1951620061020.asp (567 words)

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