Nanakram, a 40-year-old cancer patient from Rajasthan, has made a public appeal to Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn to stop advertising tobacco products in the interest of the society.
The patient's family said that he was a fan of Devgn and used the same product which the actor advertises for, but now realises that tobacco has had an adverse effect on his life.
Nearly 1,000 pamphlets addressed to Devgn, in which Nanakram asks the actor how much he or his family chew tobacco, have been circulated and pasted on the walls in Sanganer, Jagatpura and nearby areas of the city.
“My father Nanakram Meena started chewing tobacco a few years ago and was using the same brand for which Devgn does the advertisement. My father was impressed by Devgn, but when he was diagnosed with cancer, he felt that such a big star should not advertise for these kind of products,” Dinesh Meena, the patient's son, told PTI.
In the pamphlet, Nanakram said that advertisements for liquor, cigarette and tobacco were harmful and that actors should not promote these things.
A father of two children, Nanakram, who used to run a tea stall earlier, cannot speak and runs the family by selling milk at home in Sanganer town of Jaipur.