Topic started by BABA (@ 203.76.163.2) on Thu Feb 20 12:10:03 .
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Good guys on our screen are lighting up cigarettes more than ever before according to a study by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
WHO’s survey of 395 Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films between 1991-2002 showed that on-screen smoking has gone up from 22–53 percent in the last 10 years. The biggest offenders who top the chart are Shah Rukh Khan and our own Rajnikanth! Shah Rukh Khan has smoked or mentioned about smoking in most of his films.
Close on their heels are the baddies like Gulshan Grover and Prakash Raj. The other smoking chimneys featured in the top ten are Aamir Khan, Vijay, Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar and Chiranjeevi.
The study shows that the teens who watch movies containing smoking are three times more likely to try out smoking. And those whose favourite hero smokes on screen are 16 times more likely to have positive attitudes toward smoking!
While almost all top male stars propagate smoking, the only actress who were found smoking on screen were Manisha Koirala and Priety Zinta.
Courtersy... Sify.com
I remember Kamal once in a Cancer Hospital visit spoke on this, star imitation for to smoke.
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