Tobacco use is very common worldwide.It is very popular and more accepted form of substance compared to others. It is used in the form of chewing, smoking and snorting.Chewing tobacco is an adherent factor for health hazards.Tobacco consumption in the form of smokeless tobacco is the world's leading preventable cause of premature death and held responsible for about 5 million deaths annually, mostly in poor countries.Gutkha is a powdery, granular white substance with arecanut, lime, spices cardamom, catechu, colouring agent having pleasing flavouring odours.Gutkha, as a smokeless tobacco...

Every five seconds one person in our world goes blind--and a child goes blind every minute.These are alarming statistics. Yet, blindness is still perceived as a lower priority issue. Blindness has profound human and socio-economic consequences in all societies. The cost of education, rehabilitation and lost productivity due to blindness is a significant economic burden on families, communities and nations, particularly those in economically deprived areas of the world. Furthermore, in such settings, blindness is often associated with lower life expectancy. Thus, the prevention and cure of...