NAROWAL: An Anti-Narcotics Force team seized 1,728 packets of smuggled chewing tobacco, such as betel nuts, gutka, ratan and nara, from the canteens of private schools and colleges on Tuesday.

The banned smokeless tobacco items were being sold to students at the canteens of private schools and colleges.

District Narcotics Control Committee Secretary Arif Husain said the youth were falling to addiction by using intoxicating betel nuts. “Legal action will be taken against the canteen owners and shopkeepers from whom betel nuts have been seized,” he said.

Additional Deputy Commissioner Rana Arshad Ali banned the sale of intoxicant tobacco in the radius of 100 metres of schools and colleges.

Published in Dawn, January 10th, 2018