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For smoking in Amritsar college, SRK to get warning notes everyday
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TEENATHACKER
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 10
AS the ban on smoking in public places comes into effect from October 2, Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan looks set for another run-in with Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss who had earlier asked him to desist from smoking on screen. This time, King Khan is in a bit of a spot—the Health Ministry, taking note of a Punjab government complaint that he was smoking on the Khalsa College campus in Amritsar during the shoot of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, has directed state health authorities to issue Khan a notice.
The Ministry has also asked Mumbai-based NGOs to send leaflets on the ill-effects of smoking to Khan's home everyday. The idea is to make him quit smoking.
"If he doesn't understand the hard way, he should be taught a lesson via Gandhigiri, the way Sanjay Dutt did to Boman Irani in Lage Raho Munna Bhai. This is also the way to approach his wife and son who, after seeing these leaflets, may ask him to quit smoking," a senior Ministry official told The Indian Express.
Punjab health authorities have decided
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Health Ministry
asks Punjab govt
to issue the actor
a notice, tells
Mumbai-based
NGOs to drop
leaflets at his
home everyday
so that he kicks
the habit
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Shah Rukh Khan at the shoot of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi in Amritsar
to send Khan a notice for violating the law that prohibits a person from smoking in a public place and at an educational institute. Officials said the fine of Rs 200 was hardly a deterrent, so it was "a good idea" to send him literature on the dangers of smoking and "may work".
In February, Khan, reacting to Rama-doss's advice to him .not to smoke on screen, said he was impressed with the minister's concern about public health. "I too want to quit smoking in real life." But he defended smoking scenes on screen. "Anything negative in movies like fighting, firing, smoking, drinking and rapes are not for their glorification, but they are a part of characters," he said.
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