In this Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 photo, 11-year-old Sagira Ansari holds up bundles of bidi tobacco cigarettes that she rolled at her house in Dhuliyan, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.

Sajida Khan and her family earn their living by spending their days rolling bidis, a popular Indian cigarette made of loose tobacco wrapped in leaves from the common tendu tree. Her husband and three ...

Kannauj - Zainab Begum Alvi and her band of young helpers hunch over baskets filled with tobacco flakes and dried leaves, trying to roll a thousand dirt-cheap cigarettes a day at the behest of India's ...

India’s bidi cigarette workers need to be at the heart of discussions about finding alternatives to working in the tobacco industry, according to a new study. Bidis are hand-rolled leaf cigarettes and ...

Most of the bidi rolling work is done by women from homes, which continuously exposes them to nicotine, tar, unburnt tobacco dust, and other toxic particles that pass through skin and throat. NEW ...

DHULIYAN: Sagira Ansari sits on a dusty sack outside her uneven brick home in this poor town in eastern India, her legs folded beneath her. She cracks her knuckles, then rubs charcoal ash between her ...