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.

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

8. Cancer
Mouth Cancer
Tongue Cancer
Throat cancer

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.