President urges celebrities to avoid promoting harmful substances

The President has urged popular artists to promote disciplined lifestyles and refrain from endorsing substances harmful to health, according to The Hindu. The appeal placed particular emphasis on artists who influence children and young people. The President said their public visibility gave them a responsibility to avoid promoting products or substances that could damage health.

The supplied material does not identify the occasion on which the remarks were made, name the artists addressed or specify the substances covered by the warning. It also does not indicate whether the President proposed new rules, enforcement measures or penalties for endorsements of harmful products. The available information is confined to the call for influential artists to consider the effect of their promotions on younger audiences and to support disciplined lifestyles instead.