India's reason to ban vaping has little to do with its impact on health

Quartz analysis (Niharika Sharma) arguing the ban’s real driver was protectionism rather than health. Quotes Samrat Chowdhery, founder of AVI, on the government’s financial stake in cigarette maker ITC: “The government owns 28% of ITC, a leading manufacturer of cigarettes, which means it is directly profiteering from the cigarette trade, along with earning thousands of crores in taxes on cigarettes.”