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The Gujarat government imposed a ban and black marketers were caught.
Micro batteries are drying up the lungs of youth, and destructive e-hookahs have arrived.
Dilip Patel
Ahmedabad, April 5, 2025
Addiction among youth is increasing in the city. With the closure of hookah bars, e-cigarette sales have increased. E-cigarettes are being sold in plush paan parlours. The popularity of e-cigarettes has increased significantly in hawker centres operating under the guise of cafes. E-cigarettes are being seen not only in the purses of young men but also in the purses of young women. Rs. 100 crore worth of e-cigarettes from Adani’s Mundra port. Gujarat has now become a hub for e-cigarettes like drugs ever since e-cigarettes worth Rs 50 crore were seized.
E-hookah users experience a gurgling sound while smoking hookah. Which is giving the same experience as hookah.
Market
When it was banned in India in 2019, the black market of e-cigarettes was Rs 1,500 crore. Now that market is Rs. It has crossed 5 thousand crores. When the ban was imposed in Gujarat in 2029, the traders met the government and asked them not to ban it, as it would create a black market. This is what happened. It is estimated that e-cigarettes worth Rs 600 crore are consumed in Gujarat.
No company in India manufactures e-cigarettes. Before the ban, about 460 e-cigarette companies were selling these products in India. More than one thousand of their flavor products are being sold in the market. Its business is around Rs 1800 crore. But its black market has increased to Rs 5,000 crore. There are companies in Gujarat that manufacture e-cigarettes.
Apart from this, e-cigarette products are being brought from countries like China, Korea, Japan and Dubai via Mumbai, Delhi and Gujarat. Gautam Adani, one of the biggest industrialists of Gujarat and the world, has received a package of Rs 1000 crore. E-cigarettes worth Rs 50 crore were seized. Since then, just as Gujarat has become a hub of narcotics, it is also becoming a hub of e-cigarette trade.
Chinese cigarettes
Created by Chinese pharmacist Hon Lik in 2003. E-cigarettes came to India through Nepal’s Nathula Pass and other trade routes. Now it has become a winding road. Foreign cigarettes are smuggled from abroad. According to the rules, cigarettes with a picture of 80 percent cancer on the box can be sold. There is no such picture, selling which is a crime. At present, the craze of e-cigarettes is increasing in place of cigarettes across the country.
Black marketing by law
The Gujarat government has banned e-cigarettes from 2019, resulting in its open market. Imprisonment of 3 years and Rs. 1000 fine for hookah bars. Fine up to 50,000.
E-cigarettes – electronic nicotine delivery systems – dangerous to health have been banned in Gujarat. Imprisonment of 3 years and fine of Rs. 50 thousand has been imposed.
What is e-cigarette?
E-cigarette means electronic cigarette. E-cigarette is a pen-shaped cigarette made of an electric device. It is an abbreviation of Electronic Nicotine Delivery System. These include micro battery-operated devices. Commonly known as e-cigarettes. Which simulates the sensation of smoking. In the last few years, these products have emerged as a viable alternative to combustible cigarettes. Because it does not contain any kind of tobacco. But it usually contains tobacco residues like tar and carbon monoxide.
Cigarettes are a battery-operated device. Drug dealers are ruining the youth by running their business.
Gautam Adani’s Mundra Port
Gautam Adani’s Mundra Port in Gujarat has become a hub for illegal import of e-cigarettes. In 2022, the DRI seized e-cigarettes worth Rs 48 crore from Mundra Port. 2,00,400 e-cigarette sticks were found in the container. An attempt was being made to send them to Dubai by changing the bills of both the containers. Import of e-cigarettes is banned in India. Still theft happens secretly.
In 2022, the DRI seized a container full of e-cigarettes worth Rs 20 crore in Surat. The city’s e-cigarettes came from China and were to be transported to Mumbai.
434 e-cigarettes worth Rs 4.91 lakh were recovered during a raid on a leaf dump in Bodakdev area of Ahmedabad. Police have arrested two youths with Rs 4.24 lakh in cash and two cars. A paan parlour named Papago was selling paan in the Solicitor Building on Rangoli Road near Rajpath Club. The paan parlour was storing a large amount of gold in two cars parked in the basement of the lawyer building.
Recently, SMC raided Arihant Gift and Kitchen Shop in Kalupur and seized e-cigarettes worth Rs 9.11 lakh.
The three suppliers caught with e-cigarettes supply e-cigarettes to big paan parlours in all the posh areas of Ahmedabad. (Google translation from Gujarati)
