`No Smoking` for Vijay

After Dr. Anbumani the Union Health Minister and PMK strongman made an appeal to Vijay not to show smoking on the screen, Ilayathalapathy has said that he will not "smoke on screen in future" Vijay clarified about his smoking scenes in ATM- " I'm helpless, one of the characters that I did in ATM has negative shades and to establish that he is a bad guy there are scenes showing him smoking. At the end of the film when he turns a new leaf there is also a scene showing him discarding cigarettes." Vijay also pointed out that in the title itself, the statutatory warning about the ills of cigarette smoking has been prominently displayed. Meanwhile Vijay has decided to follow the advise of Dr Anbumani and from now there will not be any smoking scenes in any of his films. Vijay and director Dharani has made it clear that there will not be any smoking scene in Kuruvi.