Tell hubbies not to promote pan masala: Delhi govt to actors' wives

 The Delhi government has approached the wives of four actors, urging them to encourage their husbands not to endorse pan masala products as they contain areca nuts, a potential cancer causing agent.

The move comes after the government failed to get a response from the actors themselves.

Additional Director (Health), Delhi Government, Dr S K Arora has written to Kajol, wife of actor Ajay Devgn, Gauri Khan, wife of Shah Rukh Khan, Malaika Arora Khan, wife of Arbaaz Khan, and Suneeta Ahuja, wife of actor Govinda, asking them to persuade their husbands not to endorse pan masala products in larger public interest.

“Humble appeal to you for encouraging Mr Shah Rukh Khan not to participate in advertisements of pan masala... Earlier, a letter was written to Mr Khan for not participating in such advertisements in public interest. Nonetheless I have not received any response till date nor has he plugged doing such advertisements,” Arora said in his letter to Gauri Khan.

He further said that even if these pan masalas do not contain tobacco or nicotine, they surely contain areca nuts (supari).

Now there are a lot of scientific evidence which proves that supari causes cancer. “A similar letter was sent to Sunny Leone and I am delighted to inform that I have received an affirmative response that there will be no such promotions in future. Moreover, she is consulting the companies for the terms and conditions of the present contract to stop advertising pan masalas,” Arora said.