India has introduced a new ban on smoking in public spaces, four years after an initial prohibition failed to take hold.
Officials say one in three Indians smokes some form of tobacco, with a recent study suggesting that 900,000 a year die of smoking-related causes. An appeal against the ban by India's main cigarette company and the country's hotel lobby was rejected by the Supreme Court on Monday.
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