Indian subcontinent is having highest degree of prevalence of oral cancer  .India has a record death of over 7 lakhs death each  year .Almost every year  70000 young children below 15 years start smoking. Here is a guided tour  of how Gutkha and smoking creates the devastation .Recently we had world cancer day .This presentation is a dedication to all the workers in the field of cancer .

Prof Tuthipat Ramachandra Gururaja Rao a postgraduate in Periodontology {1976} and in Oral Pathology {1984} from university of Bangalore and London} has been dedicated academic scholar and post graduate teacher with over four decades of teaching in both subjects ,A senior Senior commonwealth medical scholar ,is also bestowed with several honors of being Past President of Indian society of periodontology ,Indian Association of Oral and Maxillo facial pathologists ,International Association of Dental Research India Section, 75 years of age still has hunger for knowledge and discourse