Here is why people of Dawoodi Bohra community don't sell tobacco, cigarettes

The Dawoodi Bohra community, a subgroup within the Mustaali Ismaili Shia branch of Islam, is one of the few Indian communities that refrains from selling tobacco or cigarettes. 

Traders of Dawoodi Bohra community across India don't sell tobacco products, in order to keep with the diktats of their religious leader, who preached the ill-effects of tobacco products. 

Doctor Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, the 52nd Dail-e-Mutlaq (Dai, or Unrestricted Missionary) inspired the community to refrain from selling products that can harm others socially, physically or economically. He also urged his community to be a part of nation's development.

This practice is followed by people of Dawoodi Bohra community all over the country.

The community's spiritual leader, the Dai al-Mutlaq, serves as the representative of the purported hidden Imam. Zoeb bin Moosa was the first Dai-al-Mutlaq of the community.

Burhanuddin died in 2014. The death of the community's longest living Dai-al-Mutlaq saw a tussle between successors, with two individuals from the community laying claim to the post.