TruemorsA camel trader lighting his first smoke at a make-shift tea stall at Pushkar fair, Rajasthan, India. Rural folk smoke bidi a rolled up dried leaf containing chopped tobacco. It was once believed that bidis are less harmful than cigarettes because the latter use paper. Now it is considered to be more harmful than cigarettes. In any case, both are dangerous and highly avoidable! I should know! I quit two years back!
Morning Bidi
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Title: Morning Bidi
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Created: Wed, 02/13/2008 - 5:41pm
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at 17:52 on February 13th, 2008
Smoking "biri" or 'bidi' consisting of chopped flakes of tobacco rolled in tendu leaf into a slim stick. Once thought to be safer than cigarettes, it is now proved that they are more carcinogenic than any other form of tobacco. This combined with the miserable conditions under which women and children roll them in 'factories' make bidis a deadly cocktail of health, Human right and exploitation. Now flavoured bidis are attracting even well to do people, espcially the younger ones.