India's health minister, Anbamani Ramadoss has told Bollywood superstars to stop setting a bad example by smoking in public.
He added, " 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. that children are being affected."
Mr Ramadoss, who has been campaigning for a ban on smoking on screen, said 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 films.
"There shouldn't be any smoking scenes in movies, we have statistics showing that 52 per cent of children have their first puff of cigarette due to celebrities smoking on screen."
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 cinema attendances.
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