Beedi Smoking

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  Kerala Students Enter Excise Office, Ask For Matchbox To Smoke Ganja, Case Filed

  Excise officers in this district in Kerala were in for a rude shock when a group of school students entered their office accidentally and requested for a matchbox to light a beedi rolled with ganja.

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  Man Lights Beedi On Riyadh-Bound IndiGo Flight, Arrested At Mumbai Airport

  A 42-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly smoked a beedi inside a lavatory onboard a Riyadh-bound IndiGo flight, a Mumbai Police official said on Tuesday raising concerns over security as the passenger had managed to pass through pre-boa

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  Mahesh Babu Reveals Smoking A Beedi In Guntur Kaaram Gave Him A Migraine

  Mahesh Babu's Guntur Kaaram was released in theatres on January 12

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  First-Time Flyer Caught Smoking Beedi On Flight Says He Didn't Know Rules

  First-time flyer from Rajasthan has been arrested at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru on charges of smoking 'Beedi' on the Bengaluru-bound Akasa Air flight, police said on Wednesday.

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  Bengaluru School Kids Tied To Tree, Forced To Smoke; Six Arrested: Police

  At least six people were arrested for allegedly torturing children by tying them up to a tree and forcing them to smoke beedi inside a government school campus in Bengaluru, Karnataka, the police said.

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  No Decision Yet On Cigarette Ban Over Smoking-Covid Link: Maharashtra

  The Maharashtra government on Tuesday told the Bombay High Court that it had not yet decided on taking any action against the production and sale of cigarettes and beedis over a possible link between smoking and COVID-19.

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  Delhi Property Dealer Dies As His Clothes Catch Fire While Smoking

  A 72-year-old property dealer died after his clothes caught fire while smoking a beedi in his room in southeast Delhi's Tughlakabad today, police said

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  Smoking 'Beedis' Also Causes Gastric Cancer: Study

  Smoking 'beedis' is a causative factor for gastric cancer apart from that of lungs and the oral cavity, a study carried out in a Kerala district town said.

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  5-Year-Old Boy Forced to Smoke Beedi, Video Goes Viral

  The disturbing video of a little boy in Tamil Nadu being forced to smoke a beedi, is being shared on social media.

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  Away From Controversies, a 13-Year-Old Suffers the Effects of Beedis. She Rolls Them.

  Beedis are affecting Afsana's health, say doctors. She says she feels drugged and giddy and her heads hurts. The 13-year-old does not smoke beedis, she rolls them. A 1000 for Rs 45.

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  PM Narendra Modi Backs Larger Health Warnings on Cigarette Packets: Sources

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly asked Health Minister JP Nadda to go ahead with enforcing larger pictorial warnings on cigarette packets after a parliamentary committee said the move should be delayed because there is no local evidence that smoking causes cancer.

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  '60 Cigarettes a Day Didn't Kill Someone I Know': Another BJP Lawmaker Defends Tobacco

  BJP parliamentarian from Assam says that anyone who believes that smoking causes cancer should consider this - "I know two elderly people who drank a bottle of alcohol and smoked 60 cigarettes every day. One is still alive, the other died at 86."

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  'Sugar Causes Diabetes, is it Banned?' Another BJP Lawmaker Sides With Tobacco

  There is no Indian evidence to link cancer to cigarettes, said the chief of a parliamentary committee earlier this week, commissioning a national controversy. Now, another member of the same panel has backed that opinion, asking, "Why can't doctors explain why chain smokers don't get cancer?"

• Tobacco use increasing amongst the younger generation

  Though the ill effects of tobacco have been known for a long time and several campaigns, official and unofficial, have met with different degrees of success or failure, as the case may be, the new challenge facing the anti-smoking authorities is the task of discouraging the youth from consuming tobacco in any form. This and some other issues are b...