Originally posted by: HearMeRoar
Paan causes cancer, some of which can be incurable. Colas don't.
Not difficult to understand.
F&L was a long time ago before society changed for the better. I'd be outraged if he endorsed it today. Edited to add. I looked it up. He is still endorsing it.
Even so, people have trigger points they react to. Not everyone gets equally outraged for every wrong thing.
Pan by itself doesn't cause cancer. If you put in tobacco in the pan, that's when it turns carcinogenic.
Traditionally, at least in the north, pan used to be made at home and consumed after a meal (unlike today where you get them from panwalas).
The pan (betel leaf), kattha, chuna and supari are key ingredients for flavor. Tobacco is frequently used but not always. And never in meetha pan, sada pan or pachhattar different varieties of pan. And that is the distinction I want to clarify for anyone that doesn't know much about pan.
So, enjoy your meetha pan. Yum 😋
On topic, SRK must have his reasons, but I was disappointed by his decision.
I have never tasted gutkha (since gutkha ads are banned, 'Pan Masala' is the closest ad to a gutkha), but I have, on multiple occasions, been compelled to smell frsh gutkha spit. It's horrendous. And would certainly never entice anyone to run towards the spitter. 😆
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