Vaping ban up in smoke

Recent lifestyle-desk report (Sreya Deb) revisiting the ban’s track record years on. Quotes Samrat Chowdhery, described as AVI founder and former INNCO president, estimating roughly 35-40% of India’s smoking population has shifted to vaping despite the ban, and describing cigarette shops openly selling vapes in small cities he names as “Muzaffarabad” and Roorkee (likely meaning Muzaffarnagar, UP, given the Uttarakhand/Roorkee context — the outlet’s own text, not corrected here) — evidence, he says, of how lacklustre enforcement has been.