On-Screen Smoking Ban Lifted In India

“In an obvious setback for health campaigners throughout the country, an Indian court has reversed a federal ban on showing smoking in movies and on TV. A High Court in New Delhi … said that the ban was a restriction on creative freedom. ‘The directors of films should not have multifarious authorities breathing down their necks when indulging in the creative act,’ Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, said.”