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What does paan mean?

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Noun
  1. A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. [from 16th c.]
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Men and women may be employed to carry spittoons to enable paan chewers to spit in them.
The delicacy of paan is enjoyed all over the Indian subcontinent including Bangladesh.
It was observed that the street children start with chewing paan and gradually change to tobacco to solution to ganja to alcohol.
When combined with fennel, anise and areca nuts, star anise is often used as a digestive aid and breath freshener in paan.
A section on tobacco risks includes links on the connection between chewing Gutkha or paan and developing mouth cancer.
Although it is sometimes used as a palate cleanser and digestive aid, paan often acts as a caffeinelike stimulant and is addictive.

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