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Happy boy, who died?

On September/0/0, 2022, Fu Song, a singer who participated in Happy Boys on Hunan Satellite TV, died of oral cancer at the age of 36. At that time, with the album "Singing and Crying", he won the most popular male singer of the year in Guangzhou pop music, and the scenery was temporary. Unexpectedly, he died in just a few years. It is reported that Fu Song liked chewing betel nut very much before his death, and his oral cancer was caused by betel nut.

Fu Song's hometown, Hunan, is a big betel nut consumption province. In Hunan, betel nut chewing is regarded as a folk culture, especially in Xiangtan. In Xiangtan, eat areca has a history of more than 400 years, and betel nut industry is also a pillar industry in Xiangtan. As early as 20 17, the annual processing and production scale of edible betel nut in Xiangtan has reached more than 200,000 tons, with more than 300,000 employees, with an annual output value of more than 20 billion yuan, accounting for the city's total output value.

What many people don't know is that betel nut has long been recognized as a first-class carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer under the World Health Organization. Many experts at home and abroad have long warned that the probability of oral cancer is very high if you chew betel nut for a long time.

In August, 20021year, a citizen of China was caught by Turkish customs for carrying betel nuts while traveling in Turkey. Because Turkish law recognizes arecoline in areca nut as a drug, because it has a magical effect.

In June 2022, in the last VLOG video released by Fu Song, he did not hesitate to show his festering left face, saying that his oral cancer had recurred three times, and advised netizens who were still chewing betel nuts to stay away from betel nuts.