Advantages And Disadvantages Of Chewing Khat

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Register to read the introduction… Thus, the data shows that 18 respondents said that they used chewing chat from 2-4 hours, 10 replied from 5-7 hours and one (1) respondent said above 7 hours per day.

In general, these data indicated most of the chewers were lasted for about 6-10 years and in line with these out of total 29 respondents who chew chat 18 of them spend about 2-4 hours per day.

Table:-3.11-Number of days for chewing and costs incurred for chat per week
| Item Description |How much birr do you expend per day for chat? |
| How many days do you chew per |less than 20 birr |
|week? | |
| Do you chew chat? |I don't like it |
| Does the expansion of chewing chat |easily accessible chat supply
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| |
| Because of chewing chat, is there|Decrease in food appetite |
|any personal problem? | |
| Does your chewing chat have impacts on society? |- |Damage |Erode social and |
| | |human and |economic |
| | |environment|relationships |
| | |al health | |
| |What the society should do, in preventing chat expansion? |4 |10.0 |10.0 |
| |creating job opportunities | | |

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