0 leaves of the betel plant wrapped around tobacco, fruit, etc. and chewed , especially because they have a pleasant effect like a drug
It provides advice and support on giving up tobacco whether as cigarettes, bidi, the hookah, chewing tobacco or tobacco in paan.
Several relatively new tobaccos of questionable provenance have joined gutkha and paan from the far east in being legal and on sale.
Tobacco is mixed with a number of other substances to produce paan.
In addition to the paan products—the leaf-based parcels—a new generation of tobacco products has begun to enter the market.
Consumers prefer chewing tobacco formulations such as gutka over paan.
Tea-shops and paan-stalls abound and there is a high concentration of "mishtir dokaan" (sweet-shops).
The customers are invited and offered sweets, paan and gifts on this occasion.
Breaks are then given so that the ladies can have "paan" and "shupari" and/or tea.
