Youth in the country are more and more addicting to flavored betel leaves and areca nuts products which are banned for selling in Sri Lanka ,day by day according to the Dr.Prasanna Jayasekare attached to National Cancer Control Programme.
Accordingly Youth in the country are addicted to flavoured Betel leaves and arecs nut products namely Babul Beeda ,Saravita ,Mawa and pan paraag in large scale mostly teanagers and very soon they will overtake the number of betel leaves chewing adults he has stressed .
He has revealed this during a press briefing held at Health Promotions Bureau in Colombo today (18)regatding world oral health day.
Betel leave chewing is the number one factor which caused oral cancer among males in Sri Lanka Dr.Jayasekara has stated.
However 76 percent of the male Oral cancer patients in the country. have been identiefied during the late stages of the disease and it is hard to cure them then Dr. jayasekara had further said.
