"India has one of the highest rates of tobacco use in the world..."
i think that this should say one of the largest consumers of tobacco in the world, simply because the country is so large: about 1 billion people. (china is the largest consumer of tobacco in the world.) in terms of smoking _rates_, india has a fairly low rate, especially of manufactured cigarettes (c.f. roll-your-own joints from leaf tobacco).
as the article notes, one can use tobacco in a variety of ways (ex., chewing, snuff, snus, water pipes,...), although all uses are associated with various health problems.
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Good luck with banning vaping and/or smoking. There are a mere 120 million tobacco cigarette smokers (i.e., nicotine addicts) in India. And there are 350 million smokers in China. Probably should think about banning smoking before you take on vaping.
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