Bollywood Rumors > Up In Smoke: India Bans Puff Pics

[SpeakSpeak News] The Indian government has banned on-screen images of people smoking, saying depiction of smokers glamorizes tobacco use. The health ministry said distributors and directors would have to show health warnings on screens in old movies and TV shows, whether Indian or foreign, that showed actors smoking. “(There would have to be a) mandatory display of a prominent scroll containing a health warning in programmes containing scenes with smoking situations that have been produced before this notification,” a ministry statement said on Wednesday. The new rules also mean names or logos of tobacco products would have to be cut or masked. Bollywood directors, constantly at war with India’s censorship board, are steamed once again. “It is an absurd regulation”¦to ban smoking on screen is ridiculous. It’s a joke taken too far,” filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt was quoted in The Times of India as saying on Monday. Another director, Shyam Benegal, told the newspaper the move would interfere with...

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[tastyworm.com - A Personal Web Site Of Slimey Proportions] India to ban smoking in films In an absolutely rid...: Remove how characters are constructed, or place limitations on how they behave, and you limit storyline and plot! While I can see certain necessitations for some things being censored or blocked, banning the portrayal of smoking in a film is just ridiculous. Feel free to put warnings like: "This film contains references to smoking. Smoking is not recommended and can be damaging to your health", but to block it completely?

[Benjamin Orion] On the Ancient Mysteries and Christianity: Profound spiritual secrets were revealed which could lead to a mystical rebirth. As with the Brahmins of India, such wisdom could not be revealed to outsiders; hence the closing of lips to ensure secrecy. Thus, we possess little information regarding the secret rites and their revelations. Another interpretation of 'mystery' was that the initiate closed his eyes to mundane knowledge, only to open them again to see higher truths.

[Medicine and Man] Indian Government bans smoking in Indian movies and television: In my opinion the move by the government is ridiculous. Although I agree that youngsters do imitate their favorite onscreen actors but their are other ways in which smoking can be curbed. For instance, last year the government banned smoking in public places, but nothing has been done to impose the ban. People can be regularly seen smoking everywhere such as bus stops, railway stations and even in trains.

Scienceblog.comhttp://www.scienceblog.com [Scienceblog.com] Smoking causes half the tuberculosis deaths in Indian men: This is the first major study to be completed on how smoking causes death in India. It compared the smoking habits of 43,000 men who had died of various diseases in the late 1990s with the habits of 35,000 living men. More than 4000 of these deaths were from TB, but if the smokers had had the same low risks as non-smokers there would have been fewer than 2000 TB deaths.

[Pr-india.blogspot.com] Public Relations India : Microsoft Search - PR gaffe!: Brian Peterson, of Microsoft's PR firm Waggener Edstrom, said: "None of our approved/distributed screen shots of MSN Search were made using a Mozilla Firefox browser. Moving forward, we will not be commenting on this issue".

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Ravikiran.com[Ravikiran.com] The Examined Life » Blog Archive » This Ethiopian Qahwah brought ...: that was really enlightening ravi…. somehow the thought of having a qahwah is much warmer than having a cappucino at CCD neverthless I enjoy it and somehow the analogy is going to work on my brain….so the next time I have coffee at CCD it will be with a qahwah feel:)

Loiclemeur.com[Loiclemeur.com] Loic Le Meur Blog: Italy quits smoking: Loic, you'll see people who don't stop with the red lights in Rome or in Naples... but you'll hardly see them in Milan or Turin :-)

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