Withdraw from ad campaign promoting pan masala: NGO to Big B

<!– window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []}; googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.defineSlot(‘/152781180/TC_Rappio_In_Read_SP’, [1, 1], ‘div-gpt-ad-1565255909405-0’).addService(googletag.pubads()); googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest(); googletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(); googletag.enableServices(); }); –> <!– googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1565255909405-0’); }); –> News Withdraw from ad campaign promoting pan masala: NGO to Big B By TellychakkarTeam 23 Sep 2021 08:54 PM Mumbai <!– div class="Post_Meta">23 Sep 2021 08:54 PM | TellychakkarTeam</div –> Follow us on Google news to get the best breaking news

MUMBAI: A national anti-tobacco organisation has urged Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan to withdraw from an advertising campaign promoting pan masala, saying that the move would help wean away youngsters from getting hooked to tobacco addiction.

In a letter to Bachchan, Shekhar Salkar, President, National Organisation for Eradication of Tobacco, said that medical research has proved that addiction to tobacco and pan masala decays the health of the citizens, especially the youth, and said that since he (Bachchan) is the government brand ambassador for the high profile pulse polio campaign, he should drop out from the