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Wish someone warned me against tobacco usage 40 years ago: Sharad Pawar

  •   Mon, Mar 19 2018 12:24:00 PM

Mumbai, Mar 19 (PTI): Nationalist Congress Party or NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Sunday that he regretted consuming tobacco and supari, adding that he wished someone had warned him to get rid of the life-threatening habit 40 years ago.

Mr Pawar, a cancer survivor, was speaking in Mumbai at the launch of the Indian Dental Association's (IDA) mission to eradicate oral cancer by 2022.

The former Union agriculture minister said he suffered tremendously because of surgery, the removal of teeth and the resulting difficulty in opening his mouth wide, in swallowing food as well as talking.

He said he was pained that lakhs of Indians continued to fall prey to the scourge and promised to raise the issue in Parliament.

Pawar also pledged support to the Indian Dental Association's cause of eradicating oral cancer and curbing the menace of tobacco usage.

The event was held to commemorate the World Oral Health Day.
  

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  • Rita, Germany

    Tue, Mar 20 2018

    You are wrong Mr.Pawar.Even when others had warned you,you certainly not taken it seriously as even today many do.so long self is effected ,doesnt go inside their head.Mostly when mostly parents smoke ,then children too will follow.some do in company of their school mates .Supari is most spread in Mumbai area.in certain groups.Effect of this habit they feel later.Even E cigaretts too have their bad effect as bad as normal ones.

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  • PEDDA GUNDA, MANGALURU

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    He is a "GODFATHER" in a dark shadow !

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  • mohammed, Al khobar

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    Non of the people will take action untill it reclets to themselves...

    Anyways its really bad to comment on some one health...

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    without even knowing the side effects of tobacco how come he is a politician and what kind of guidence he might have given to his followers? Strange!

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  • Declan, Mumbai

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    May be there is a little truth to what he is saying. I think he may have started tobacco in his college days but even if we assume he started tobacco abuse forty years ago at the age of 37 in the year 1977 (he is 77 yrs - Dec.1940 born). In those days the benefit of TV and such social messaging was really not advanced. People just knew that tobacco was bad but they probably did not know 'how bad' it could be. Now the kind of images they show on TV of the damage cancer caused by tobacco can do to the human body it is enough to scare most of us.
    I would also like to add that when people are young there is a tendency to throw caution to the wind. for eg. youth especially boys know the dangers of riding bikes at high speed and that it can be fatal or leave them physically handicapped for life yet they drive at break neck speed whatever their reasons to do it may be (impressing the opposite sex, being macho etc.)
    People especially the young do not take warnings seriously unless the problem reaches their doorstep though now at least in the case of tobacco a lot of people stay away from it.

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  • Jenifer, Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    I agree with you Declan. Not big enough to using one, we as kids were fascinated seeing our older cousins smoked. Probably we too aspired to follow them when we become of their age but thanks to the warnings, I and my siblings weren't drawn by it.

    Yes, the same cousins suffer from ailments that brings a great heartache to us.

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  • Joe Britto, Nakre /Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    Its actually okay because in a lighter vein it seems Environmentalists have convinced Tobacco companies to print as Follows:

    " Smoking and Tobacco consumption is is good for the Environment as it kills Human Being "

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  • Declan, Mumbai

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    Why blame Sharad Pawar ? No government will ban tobacco as it is a huge revenue earner. All talk is just hypocrisy. It is upon each individual to stay away from tobacco, narcotics, alcohol abuse.

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  • I wish I was there, Bahrain

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    Mr. Pawar, by the age of four and five you should know what is right and what is wrong.

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  • Flavian, Mangaluru/Kuwait

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    The smokers regret only when enough damage to oneself is done and when we realize it is too late.
    I personally, experienced some bad experience (healthwise) and have quit smoking for ever. Almost third month since absstained from smoking.

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  • john, mangalore,/kuwait

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    YOU WERE NOT A KID TO WARN YOU!!!EVEN TODAY IF WE WARN ANYONE ABOUT TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL THEY SAY I AM NOT A KID DONT TEACH ME!! THE FUNCTION OF NOSE IS BREATHING, YOU CAN WATCH CAREFULLY A SMOKER, WHEN HE TAKE SMOKE INSIDE FROM MOUTH, AND AFTER SOME TIME SMOKE COMES OUT OF NOSE!! I WONDER IF THE NOSE WAS MADE BY GOD FOR THIS PURPOSE, THEN THE POSITION OF THE NOSE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOMEWHERE ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD AS THE CHIMINEYS OF FACTORY ARE ON THE TOP NOT SIDEWAYS!!!

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  • Stan, Udupi/Dubai

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    Media houses should spend more time educating younger people of the side effects of Tobacco instead of repeating same news stories again and again.

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  • Ozy, Surathkal

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    When you were in UPA why you did not ban tobacco? And now to how many persons you advised not to consume tobacco?

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  • AB, Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    ketta mele buddhi banthu!

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  • Ahmed K.C., Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    Ok, No one warned you.
    Now you can do something about it.
    Try to ban the Tobacco products which are life threatening.
    Should not encourage it though it's giving good income as taxes to exchequer.

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  • Jenifer, Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    Many things are not told, a cue needs to take to understand what is required out of us. Forfeiting tobacco was 40 years ago but retiring from public life is today. Nobody comes to inform you personally that your spittle splatters when you open your mouth.

    Your next generation is well into politics. What more do you want ?

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  • Devkumar, Mangalore/New Delhi

    Mon, Mar 19 2018

    only dodamma would have briefed him about ill-effect.
    still dreaming to become prime minister.

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