Nearly half of $igarette sales in India consist of beedies, which are nicotine tobacco $igarettes rolled in a tendu leaf instead of paper.

“Over 3 million Indians are employed in the manufacture of beedies,[19] a cottage industry that is typically done by women in their homes.[20]

“Workers roll an average of 500–1000 beedies per day, handling 225–450 grams of tobacco flake.[21] Studies have shown that cotinine levels in the bodily fluids of beedi workers are elevated even among those who do not use tobacco.[21]” — Wikipedia

Progress toward cannabis legalization will mean an end to the danger of being caught, arrested, disgraced, expelled, banished, disowned, blacklisted etc. for the crime of possessing a harm (dosage) reduction utensil– 25-mg vape tokes instead of hot burning monoxide $igarette “smoking”. Not only cannabis users but tobacco users will be free to obtain cannabinoids, nicotine or any herbal inspirant or medication without lighting up 450 mg at a time. $igarette smoking is said to be costing over 1,000,000 lives a year in India alone and a similar number in China.

Can American women (in Seattle, Denver or anywhere) now pioneer, entrepreneurize, create an exemplary dosage regulation utensil (one-hitters, choomettes, kiserus, midwakhs, sebsis etc.) industry, toward a version of which women in India will then be free to convert their handworkerly energies, bringing about the greatest public health triumph in the history of their country?