Cigar-maker ramps up even as vaping device hits dead-end in India

Even as manufacturers of electronic nicotine distribution devices find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place as the government announced an executive order last month banning the sale and production of all e-cigarettes, in quick response to the rapidly escalating concerns worldwide over health risks associated with the smokeless nicotine devices that younger smokers were adopting, other niche manufacturers of tobacco products are seeing better days.

Gurkha Cigars, a traditional purveyor of tobacco-products is seeing its Indian entry gain momentum, as it starts sales through a duty free store at the Mumbai Duty Free store in Mumbai's International airport