Smoking is injurious to health: Just smokin’ hot photographs!
Smoking is injurious to health. Bollywood actors Ekavali Khanna, Riya and Raima Sen, and Mugdha Godse strike a pose with a cigarette in hand.
“Celebrating Life”
Smoking is injurious to health. Bollywood actors Ekavali Khanna, Riya and Raima Sen, and Mugdha Godse strike a pose with a cigarette in hand.
By Our Correspondent | Opening Doorz Editorial | April 28, 2020
Statutory Warning: Smoking is injurious to health.
“No one can hold a cigarette like an Anne Bancroft or a Rita Hayworth, but the least I can do is try. An attempt to look cool! I don’t endorse smoking but what the hell, one can POSE,” writes Ekavali Khanna on her Instagram post. Looks like here, she does not worry about what people will say as opposed to her character Najma in the Iram Haq film, What Will People Say. A non-smoker, shot by Susmila Sil, Ekavali is using the cigarette as a prop to enhance her ‘faraway thoughts’ look.
Raima Sen, posing with a cigarette in hand, ensures her warning is upfront with #smokingisinjurioustohealth #justaportrait. Deep in thought, apparently after having taken a puff [as the pic would like us to believe], Raima is focussed on the shot, oblivious to the surrounding.
Riya Sen was shot sometime in 2002 by Ram Bherwani. Riya too does not endorse smoking but like every other actor, a cigar in hand sometimes makes for a good prop in photography. A teenager then, Riya is put at ease by the talented, award-winning photographer Ram.
Mugdha Godse in this Bunty Prashant click way back at the turn of the new century, is another actor who does not smoke nor encourage smoking. Here, too, like the others, in her early modelling years, Janet from Fashion tries her hand at various options. A classic stunner!
All Bollywood films and films shown on television now come with a statutory warning whenever an actor lights up on screen. “Smoking is injurious to health. No actor in this film promotes smoking.”
WHO report on women smokers, globally
About 250 million women in the world are daily smokers. About 22 percent of women in developed countries and 9 percent of women in developing countries smoke tobacco. In addition, many women in south Asia chew tobacco.
Cigarette smoking among women is declining in many developed countries, notably Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA. However, this trend is not found in all developed countries. In several southern, central and eastern European countries cigarette smoking is either still increasing among women or has not shown any decline.
The tobacco industry promotes cigarettes to women using seductive but false images of vitality, slimness, modernity, emancipation, sophistication, and sexual allure. In reality, it causes disease and death. Tobacco companies have now produced a range of brands aimed at women. Most notable are the “womenonly” brands: these “feminised” cigarettes are long, extra-slim, low-tar, light-coloured or menthol.
For decades, the tobacco industry has deliberately employed strategic, aggressive and well-resourced tactics to attract youth to tobacco and nicotine products. Internal industry documents reveal in-depth research and calculated approaches designed to attract a new generation of tobacco users, from product design to marketing campaigns aimed at replacing the millions of people who die each year from tobacco-attributable diseases with new consumers—youth.
In response to the tobacco and related industries’ systematic, aggressive and sustained tactics to attract a new generation of tobacco users, World No Tobacco Day 2020 will provide a counter-marketing campaign and empower young people to engage in the fight against Big Tobacco.
The World No Tobacco Day 2020 global campaign will serve to:
How are tobacco and related industries manipulating youth?
Use of flavours that are attractive to youth in tobacco and nicotine products, like cherry, bubble gum and cotton candy, which encourages young people to underestimate the related health risks and to start using them.
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