CG Board Class 9 English Reader (Flight) Chapter 7 Solutions: Unit 3 Reading A: India’s Battle to Ban Chewing Tobacco (चबाने वाले तंबाकू पर प्रतिबंध की भारत की लड़ाई) – 2026-27

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Complete 100% textbook-grounded CG Board Class 9 English Reader (Flight) Chapter 7 Solutions: Unit 3 Reading A: India’s Battle to Ban Chewing Tobacco (चबाने वाले तंबाकू पर प्रतिबंध की भारत की लड़ाई) in Bilingual Format (English & Hindi Medium).


🌐 Select Language / माध्यम चुनें:

Question

Look at the poster and read it carefully…


📝 Question:

Look at the poster and read it carefully. What is it about?

💡 Solution:

The poster is about creating public awareness regarding the dangerous health risks of tobacco and gutka consumption, encouraging people to quit tobacco and save lives.

Q2

Discuss in groups the harmful effects of gutka…


📝 Question:

Discuss in groups the harmful effects of gutka chewing and also what makes it harmful

💡 Solution:

Gutka contains crushed tobacco, betel nut, slaked lime, and poisonous carcinogenic chemicals. These harmful ingredients cause mouth cancer, jaw disfigurement, tooth decay, addiction, loss of speech, and damage to vital organs.

Q3

What difficulties might Mr Sharmas family have suffered…


📝 Question:

What difficulties might Mr. Sharma’s family have suffered because of his illness?

💡 Solution:

Mr. Sharma’s family suffered immense emotional trauma and financial strain. His daughter’s studies and computer exams were disturbed, his wife and children endured deep mental agony seeing him in extreme pain, and they faced heavy expenses for surgeries and medical treatment in Mumbai.

Q2

List the activities carried out under the campaign…


📝 Question:

List the activities carried out under the campaign called ‘Voices of Tobacco Victims’

💡 Solution:

Under the ‘Voices of Tobacco Victims’ campaign

  1. Cancer survivors were empowered to tell their personal tragic stories to influence policy makers.
  2. Public awareness was raised among tobacco users about the damaging health effects of tobacco.
  3. Advocacy was conducted to prohibit the manufacture, storage, distribution, and sale of gutka.
  4. Doctors and survivors filed Public Interest Litigations (PILs) in various states and union territories.

Q3

Mr Chaturvedi filed public interest litigations against the…


📝 Question:

Mr. Chaturvedi filed public interest litigations against the use of gutka in many states and union territories. Who helped him in this effort?

💡 Solution:

Other doctors and cancer survivors helped Dr. Pankaj Chaturvedi in filing public interest litigations and launching anti-tobacco campaigns across various states and union territories.

Q4

Which state has been most successful in banning…


📝 Question:

Which state has been most successful in banning tobacco? Give evidence in support of your answers

💡 Solution:

Maharashtra has been the most successful state. Evidence

  1. Maharashtra prohibited both gutka and paan masala simultaneously in July 2012.
  2. Manufacturing units of gutka and paan masala were shut down across the state.
  3. The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seized 16 crore rupees (\$2.9 million) worth of tobacco products, which was more than all other states combined.

Q5

Hes in a lot of pain But his…


📝 Question:

“He’s in a lot of pain. But his children and I are in even more pain…” Who is ‘he’? Who is ‘I’?

💡 Solution:

‘He’ refers to Pradeep Kumar Sharma, a 52 year old coalfield worker from Madhya Pradesh suffering from mouth cancer.

  • ‘I’ refers to Durga Sharma, the wife of Pradeep Kumar Sharma.

Q6

Which line in the lesson suggests that a…


📝 Question:

Which line in the lesson suggests that a person suffering from mouth cancer can pass on the disease to his or her children?

💡 Solution:

The line in the lesson is: “Once diagnosed with cancer, even if a patient stops chewing tobacco, the genetic damage is irreversible.”

Q7

How is gutka popularized among the youth


📝 Question:

How is gutka popularized among the youth?

💡 Solution:

Gutka was marketed as a mouth freshener to target and attract young people before it was prohibited by law.

Q10

Vocabulary Exercises I Rewrite the sentences using appropriate…


📝 Question:

Vocabulary Exercises I. Rewrite the sentences using appropriate forms of the bracketed words: 1. Sentence: Hundreds of vehicles are moving in large number* towards the Kisan Mela. (stream)

💡 Solution:

Hundreds of vehicles are streaming towards the Kisan Mela.

I do not eat gutka because some of the ingredients in it are carcinogenic.

Duleshwari was the only survivor of the plane crash.

School will launch a campaign against alcoholism in July.

The Principal has announced that stringent punishment will be given to those who do not follow the school rules.

The government has empowered women to work in the most challenging positions in the military.

The forest department is running a campaign for spreading the awareness of the need for planting trees.

Many a times the only symptom of cancer that a patient reports is a lump.

Q11

Grammar Exercises


📝 Question:

Grammar Exercises*

💡 Solution:

#### Reduced Relative Clauses

(Rule: Relative clauses starting with pronouns like who/which can be reduced by omitting the relative pronoun and verb)

Underline the reduced relative clause and expand it using who / which:

  1. Original: The progress he has made in the last one year is remarkable.
  • Reduced Clause: he has made in the last one year
  • Expanded (English): The progress which he has made in the last one year is remarkable.
  • Expanded (Hindi): ,
  1. Original: The boy talking to my daughter is her class fellow.
  • Reduced Clause: talking to my daughter
  • Expanded (English): The boy who is talking to my daughter is her class fellow.
  • Expanded (Hindi): ,
  1. Original: The person dragged by the police is the killer.
  • Reduced Clause: dragged by the police
  • Expanded (English): The person who was dragged by the police is the killer.
  • Expanded (Hindi): ,
  1. Original: The road closed for the Republic Day Parade is now open to the public.
  • Reduced Clause: closed for the Republic Day Parade
  • Expanded (English): The road which was closed for the Republic Day Parade is now open to the public.
  • Expanded (Hindi): ,
  1. Original: The cyclist hit by the speeding bus is admitted to the hospital.
  • Reduced Clause: hit by the speeding bus
  • Expanded (English): The cyclist who was hit by the speeding bus is admitted to the hospital.
  • Expanded (Hindi): ,
  1. Original: The English text book prescribed for ten years has at last been revised.
  • Reduced Clause: prescribed for ten years
  • Expanded (English): The English text book which was prescribed for ten years has at last been revised.
  • Expanded (Hindi): ,
  1. Original: The desk next to you is broken.
  • Reduced Clause: next to you
  • Expanded (English): The desk which is next to you is broken.
  • Expanded (Hindi): ,
  1. Original: The seat reserved for the Chief Guest is lying vacant.
  • Reduced Clause: reserved for the Chief Guest
  • Expanded (English): The seat which is reserved for the Chief Guest is lying vacant.
  • Expanded (Hindi): ,

### *5. Writing Exercises

Q1. Write a slogan against the use of gutka.

  • English Medium Slogans:
  1. “Chew gutka, invite pain: Lose your health, lose your gain!”
  2. “Gutka poisons your breath and leads to early death!”
  3. “Choose health, not harm: Keep gutka away from your palm!”
  4. ” , !”
  5. ” , !”
  6. ” , !”

Q2

How does mouth cancer disfigure a patient Describe…


📝 Question:

How does mouth cancer disfigure a patient? Describe in 30 words

💡 Solution:

Mouth cancer severely disfigures patients through surgical removal of lower jaw portions, tongue, or cheek tissue. Patients endure visible stitches from lips to neck, facial deformities, and loss of normal speech and eating ability.

Q13

Listening Exercises


📝 Question:

Listening Exercises*

💡 Solution:

Symptom listed on Page 82In Listening Text?Mark (✓ / ✗)
Stuffed noseYes✓
Some peoples will have diarrhoeaYes✓
Some may have headacheYes✓
Some may have pain in the bodyYes✓ (Muscle pain)
Some will have swelling in the legNo✗
Some people may get boils on the faceNo✗
HairfallNo✗
VomitingNo✗

#### Verification of Influenza Symptoms

The official listening script lists: Fever, Stuffed nose, Diarrhoea, Headache, Muscle pain.

### *7. Speaking Exercises

#### Opinion Evaluation Table

  1. “All my friends eat gutka. So I too eat gutka.”
  • Response: Disagree
  • English Reason: Peer pressure should not drive harmful habits. Personal health is far more important than copying friends.
  1. “Why waste money on a harmful things like gutka.”
  • Response: Agree
  • English Reason: Spending money on toxic items that cause cancer is financially and physically destructive.
  1. “I will not stop taking gutka. It is my freedom. It is my decision.”
  • Response: Disagree
  • English Reason: Freedom does not grant anyone the right to self-harm or bring financial ruin to their family.
  1. “85% mouth cancer patients are smokers or gutka chewers.”
  • Response: Agree
  • English Reason: This is a proven medical fact supported by Tata Memorial Hospital research.
  1. “Taking gutka is thrilling.”
  • Response: Disagree
  • English Reason: Seeking thrill in carcinogenic substances leads to agonizing illness and disfigurement.
  1. “Not everybody gets cancer from gutka.”
  • Response: Disagree
  • English Reason: Gutka damages oral tissues in everyone and carries an extremely high risk of causing cancer.
  1. “Chewing gutka is stylish.”
  • Response: Disagree
  • English Reason: Spitting red filth and staining teeth is unhygienic and repulsive, not stylish at all.
  1. “Eating gutka is harmful like smoking beedi or cigarette.”
  • Response: Agree
  • English Reason: Both smokeless and smoked tobacco deliver lethal chemicals into the body.
  1. “Gutka is a kind of dangerous drug.”
  • Response: Agree
  • English Reason: Gutka contains nicotine that creates severe physical and mental addiction.

Q14

In which different forms is tobacco sold in…


📝 Question:

In which different forms is tobacco sold in the market?

💡 Solution:

Tobacco is sold in forms such as cigarettes, beedis, gutka, paan masala, khaini, and loose chewing tobacco.

Q2

What makes tobacco dangerous


📝 Question:

What makes tobacco dangerous?

💡 Solution:

Tobacco contains over 4000 toxic and carcinogenic chemical substances, including nicotine, slaked lime, and magnesium carbonate.

Q3

What are the aftereffects of consuming tobacco


📝 Question:

What are the after-effects of consuming tobacco?

💡 Solution:

Consuming tobacco causes hair loss, cataract, tooth decay, lung cancer, heart disease, stomach ulcers, discoloured fingers, deformed sperm, gangrene, and painful premature death.

Q4

Which parts of the human body are affected…


📝 Question:

Which parts of the human body are affected by tobacco?

💡 Solution:

Tobacco affects the eyes, hair, teeth, mouth, throat, lungs, heart, stomach, fingers, reproductive organs, and legs.

Q5

What are the visible and invisible damages caused…


📝 Question:

What are the visible and invisible damages caused by tobacco?

💡 Solution:

Visible damages:** Tooth decay, discoloured fingers, hair loss, facial disfigurement, gangrene, and cataract.

  • Invisible damages: DNA genetic damage, lung cancer, heart diseases, stomach ulcers, deformed sperm, and psychological addiction.


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