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100 million smoke beedi in India, says report
by wunder | May 13, 2008 at 03:47 am | 196 views | 4 comments
An estimated 100 million people - mostly the poor and illiterate -smoke beedi in India and 200,000 tuberculosis deaths are due to thesehand-rolled cigarettes, a health ministry report released on Mondaysaid.
The report, for the year 2004-05 and termed as the firstanalytical, scientific and systematic study on the trend, said beedismoking was more harmful than cigarette smoking.
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100 million smoke beedi in India, says report
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May 13, 2008 at 03:47 am by wunder, 196 views, 4 comments
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at 14:04 on May 13th, 2008
wunder, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 20:54 on May 13th, 2008
Thanks for this post, however, it appears to have some issues with the highlighted text. Could you please provide an introduction to the post and re-work the highlighted portion? Thanks.
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Phil Skipperat 21:03 on May 13th, 2008
Hi wunder, I like this story.
Having never been to India, I never knew how widespread the smoking of beedi is.
I think Jarrett makes a good point though. The original story is from
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14672288
So you could write that it was from sify.com via ankitchaturvedi.blogspot.com
Interesting report though -- is it smoked outside India as well?
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bildebkat 06:17 on May 15th, 2008
Taken on an overland trip through India in a 1980 Scania bus, 2007.
bildebk has contributed a photo to this story.