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bi·di also bee·di  (bd)
n. pl. bi·dis also bee·dies
A thin, often flavored Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf.

[Hindi b, from Sanskrit vakam, vikam, areca nut and spices rolled up in a betel leaf.]


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Lahore, 31 May, 2009 (Frontier Star) -- "Tobacco health warnings"-the theme for this year's No Tobacco Day on May 31st, reinforces the need to step up graphic warnings on tobacco packages to discourage consumers from using tobacco in any form-smoking cigars, cigarettes, water pipes, hookah and beedis and the non smoking version such as chewing tobacco or sniffing powdered tobacco.
And, the Beedis produced by the villagers is sent to places like Gorakhpur, Devariya, Basti, Varanasi, Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
Pattinathar, a cigarette maker in South India made beedis (cigarettes) for six years, starting when he was six.
 
 
 
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