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Putting out the fire on the debate about which is more harmful to the body, bidi or cigarette, doctors at Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute here have proved that while both are injurious to health, bidi can do more harm than cigarette. “The idea of the research conducted at the Institute was to ascertain which form of smoking was more harmful. We found that bidi smokers had a breath carbon monoxide level of 19 parts per million as opposed to 13 parts per million of cigarette smokers. This when breath carbon monoxide level of a non-smoker is 4.07 parts per million,” said Dr. Raj Kumar, Head of Department of Respiratory Ailments and Applied Immunology at Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute. As part of the research, which was conducted last year and published early this year, the group studied
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