Madam Sitharaman, instead of defending the ban, please equalise the tax on bidis and cigarettes in a phased manner
According to Reuters: Mitch Zeller, head of the FDAs tobacco division, said in an interview that there is a continuum of risk among nicotine products currently on the market, with cigarettes on one end and medicinal nicotine on the other
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There were ethnic differences in the prevalence of smoking, which have also been found in previous studies 9
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