The contestation girding the new tobacco announcement featuring Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar isn’t dying down.
After Akshay Kumar’s public reason and Ajay Devgn’s defence on his” particular choice”of starring in a tobacco brand’s elaichi product announcement, an IAS officer from West Bengal has come down heavily on actors like SRK, Ajay and Amitabh Bachchan.
IAS officer Awanish Sharan took to Twitter and participated a picture of one of the pillars of the iconic Howrah Bridge. He wrote in his tweet,”Kolkata Port Trust has said slaver laced with gutkha is eroding the iconic 70- time-old ground. The Howrah Bridge is under attack from gutkha-chewers.”
The trade of gutkha or paan masala (both tobacco products) is fully banned in West Bengal as per a announcement by West Bengal’s health department.
The announcement dated October 26, 2021, issued under the hand of Tapan K Rudra, manager of food safety, West Bengal, read,”As per regulation2.3.4 of the Food Safety and Norms ( Prohibition and Restrictions on Deals) Regulations 2011 made by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, in the exercise of powers conferred by clause (i) ofsub-section (2) of section 92 of the Food Safety and Norms Act, 2006 (Central Act 34 of 2006) read with section 26 thereof, prohibits trade of papers of food in which tobacco and/ or nicotine are used as constituents, as they may be pernicious to health.”
