Saturday 21 July 2018

'Without betel nut I feel dead': Will a famed PNG singer's brush with cancer break the country's buai-chewing tradition?

George Telek has been chewing 'buai' — a highly addictive mixture of betel nut, slaked lime powder and mustard — for most of his life. But when doctors were forced to remove a cancerous mouth tumour earlier this year, he now says he's too "scared to chew".



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