Exempel på betel

• Betel and pawn, a mixture for chewing, frequently offered in politeness, as snuff with us. 

• He will dine, chew betel and smoke tobacco and enjoy a short midday rest. 

• The idea that betel preserves the teeth seems to be unfounded. 

• The princess, delighted at heart, but concealing her feelings, motioned to the prince to sit down near her, and gave him betel, flowers, perfumes, etc., through one of her attendants. 

• The use of betel is unknown to them. 

• Left: a dancer with a sheaf of areca blossom wrapped in a betel leaf.

• I remember very clearly that my grandmother had a hundred-rupee note hidden between the betel leaves that she had put into her mouth.

• In all dances where deities were invoked, the dancers carried a dlmur, a sheaf of areca blossom wrapped with a betel leaf, in their right hands (left).

• Those aged 70 and more years were far more likely to report current betel use, which reflects a sharp decline in the habit when the respondents were coming of age.

• Some cases of oral cancer are linked to smoking, the chewing of tobacco and betel quid and heavy alcohol consumption.

• The betel leaf chewing is a traditional habit and was a preserve of the older folks.

• Chewing betel leaf quid and smoking, the scientists claim shortened the life span by nearly 6 years.

• The reason for this link between obesity and betel leaf chewing, the scientists admit is unclear.

• In another study, scientists report the extent of cancer risks of betel quid chewing (without tobacco added) beyond oral cancer.

• It was also defaced by spit of paan (betel leaf) and graffiti on the walls by vandals.

• Chewing and smoking, as combined by most betel chewers, interacted synergistically and was responsible for half of all cancer deaths in this group.

• Conventionally, the meal may be followed by "vettila murukkan", chewing of betel leaf with lime and arecanut.

• Rice, betel leaves, groundnut, oil, metal articles and clothes were the major exports.

• It is famous for its pan (betel) leaves.

• Betel leaves are used as a stimulant, an antiseptic and a breath-freshener.