It is not the betel quid alone, chetta, but how it is made. Here, we take our paan with fresh betel leaf, but many there use preserved, fermented paste, and the tobacco is sometimes mixed with lime and other things that bite deeper into the gullet. My own father, who chewed all his life, passed from this very thing. So you see, it is the recipe of the habit, not just the habit itself.
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