Everyday drinking hides a deadly danger for Indian men
- Team TOI Plus
- Updated: Dec 26, 2025, 15:10 IST IST
India has spent decades warning its citizens about tobacco — on packets, on screens, in classrooms and courtrooms.
The message has been relentless, visual and unavoidable: chew, smoke, inhale, and you risk oral cancer. Yet even as these warnings have multiplied, oral cancer has not receded. It has grown — stubbornly, disproportionately, and in ways that tobacco alone no longer fully explains.
The message has been relentless, visual and unavoidable: chew, smoke, inhale, and you risk oral cancer. Yet even as these warnings have multiplied, oral cancer has not receded. It has grown — stubbornly, disproportionately, and in ways that tobacco alone no longer fully explains.
