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- Bollywood Actors told to stop smoking on the Film Sets
- - by Tamina From Chutney Writers on February 3rd, 2008
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    - Bollywood stars setting a bad example to millions of children by smoking on screen
    - Shahrukh Khan
- Shahrukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan have been encouraged to stub it out by India's Health Minister. Ramadoss, is campaigning to ban smoking on screen, is worried about the number of young Indians becoming addicted to tabacco......... (Not to worry about all the other issues affecting Young Indians!!!) Apparently statistic showing 52 per cent of children have their first puff of cigarettes because of movie celebrities. Do we think it's the same in Hollywood?
  
  Khan states “As film-makers we should have creative liberties because cinema is all about make believe. It is an attempt to curb our creative freedom and amounted to censorship"
  
  In India around 250 million people smoke or chew tobacco, and 2,200 people die daily from tobacco related diseases.
  
  As part of the crackdown, the Government has outlawed smoking in public places and banned advertising for a series of tobacco products!! Hmmm so how long with that go on for?
  
  What do you guys think?
  
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Have you heard the latest? Khan has had a fatwa issued against him for letting Madame Tussaud's in London make a waxwork fo himself. Of course, Khan who is now 43! (Poommpp up the Jam!)unveiled the statue last week, saying he was honoured.....

Mufti Salim Ahmad Qasmi, a Muslim cleric in India, reckons that Khan has broken sharia law, which forbids the depiction of living things in paintings or statues.

Imagine having another fatwa against his name, (looks like he is being favoured!!!), the first for dancing at a Hindu Festival last month. Film critic Parsa Rao said:

Nonsense, these fatwas are becoming a joke!

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vineet said:

Ha! The smoker:

amit said:

I respect him for doing that - it's so easy to get tempted by big bucks and try to look cool out in Hollywood. He knows he's the hottest property in bollywood, so why bother trying something else? Plus like you say - he knows that hollywood is shaking because bollywood is gonna go mainstream in the next few years!

'tis a good point doods - it's part and parcel of the image too - can't for example see someone not smoking in a Tarantino movie! Some things are just cool left without people babbling about influences - it's an artists' license after all.

doodler said:

I dunno, I agree with the no advertising for smoking and of course there are problems with youngsters being influenced, but banning smoking on screen? I am on Khan's side for this one, the notion that film and television influences kids is an ongoing argument and once you take the view that it is an unavoidable and overriding fact, you have to start taking every 'bad' thing off the screen. And where would that leave us?!

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