For something that looks as if it came from your rain gutter, bidis have seen a surge in popularity among the American youth. Beyond the chest – beating about the health risks of bidis, traditional tobacco connoisseurs find themselves shaking their heads and wondering why anyone would want to fire up such a ragged and tarry smoke. Why would people want to wear unwieldy platform shoes? It’s fashion. “I don’t know why anyone would …showed first 75 words of 875 total…

…showed last 75 words of 875 total…Smoking cigarettes has been a fashion for a very long time and people have stopped but the bulk of the smoking population hasn’t. That will be the same case with bidis. People will out grow the habit and move on to “the real thing,” and some will just stop all together. But the fact is that teens in America will be smoking bidis for as long as Americans have been smoking, “the real thing.”