If increasing cigarette taxes is a public health measure to discourage smoking, then lowering beedi taxes to ‘protect’ rural workers ignores the long-term cost to their lives. While most tobacco ...

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“We do not know if it is a ganja beedi… It is just too much!” These were the words of a senior lawyer making his case against an image of Arundhati Roy smoking a beedi on the cover of her new book — ...

Beedi cigarettes are not just like traditional cigarettes brands. It’s a type of cigarette that is very thin, contains tobacco, and it’s wrapped in a leaf and then tied with a string. How did the idea ...

A passenger has been booked for allegedly smoking a 'beedi' (hand-rolled cigarette) inside a toilet of a Delhi-Goa flight, the police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday, when the ...