Indian health minister tells Bollywood stars to stop smoking

"Again I would like to make an appeal, not only to Mr Shah Rukh Khan, but also to Amitabh Bachchan and to all the other personalities. Children are being affected," Anbumani Ramadoss was quoted by AFP as telling the CNN-IBN television news channel.
Ramadoss, who has been campaigning for a ban on smoking on screen, said Sunday he was "very concerned about (the) alarming rise of incidences of young people getting addicted to tobacco."
The minister said his plea was for an end to smoking "in public but also in the movies."
"There shouldn't be any smoking scenes in movies because we have statistics showing that 52 per cent of children have their first puff of cigarette due to movie celebrities," the minister said.
At least 2,200 people die daily from tobacco-related diseases in India, a nation of 1.1 billion people boasting the world's highest number of ...