Around 100 million people - mostly the poor and illiterate - smoke beedi (hand-rolled cigarettes )

Around 100 million people - mostly the poor and illiterate - smoke beedi (hand-rolled cigarettes )
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May 18th, 2008
Dr. Avnish Jolly,18 May,Chandigarh:Around 100 million people - mostly the poor and illiterate - smoke beedi (hand-rolled cigarettes, ) in India and 200,000 tuberculosis deaths are due to these hand-rolled cigarettes, a health ministry report released on last Monday. The report, for the year 2004-05 and termed as the first analytical, scientific and systematic study on the trend, said beedi smoking was more harmful than cigarette smoking.