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Tobacco sells in India despite ad ban  

Although tobacco ads are banned in India, Indian youth are smoking now more than ever, U.S. researchers said.

Researchers at the University of Texas in Houston study said they sought to learn why Indian sixth graders used three times the amount of tobacco eight graders used -- after tobacco advertising had been banned in 2004.

The study, published in the American Journal of Health Behavior, found 37 percent of the 11,642 sixth and eighth graders they surveyed in India had seen tobacco advertising in more than four places while 50 percent had seen advertising in one to four places -- despite the ban.

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