2. While all this is not to suggest that cigarette advertising should be banned, it can be examined whether a national
bume pass like cricket should be used to bat for a lethal habit. The usual justificabon for this is that sporting events
are dependent on such sponsorship. This is not entirely true. In recent years, a number of corporate houses, eager to
cash in on the high visibility of sporting meets, have entered the fray. They could be persuaded to expand the scope
of their involvement even as makers of health products are encouraged to sponsor sporting events. The Board of
Control for Cricket in India and other sports organisations need to recamine the profile of the sponsors they have
at present. In this context, the sponsorship value of agarette companies with their negative connotations needs to be
re-assessed. The State Goverments of Punjab and Maharashtra, have banned smoking in their offices and have ordered
the removal of agarette vendors, from the vicinity of schools. Indian Airlines prohibits smoking on board. More and
more people are waking up to the fact that every year 200.000 Indians die because of ang cancer, which is only one o
the tatal diseases linked with smoking Cigarette companies are now trying to reverse a potential decline in future sale
by indirectly peddling their wares to newer sections, the younger the better One way to minimise the damage is te
aggressively promote awareness of the ill-effects of nicotine from a very young age. This has been done so effectively in
the US, for example, the very concept of smoking is now being assocated with the socially dystunctional. In the absen
bf checove counter measures, the best we can do at presents to prevent the propagation of spacious images if healt
Stress are related with smoking in the minds of those who are most suscepable to such dangerous suggestions
a) On the basis of your reading the above passage, make notes on it using recogniza
abbreviations wherever necessary. Also supply an appropriate title to it,
b) On the basis of your notes on the above passage, write a summary (50 words)
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