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Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan during a polo event at Jaipur polo ground in New Delhi (TOI Photo)A majority of Times Online readers who wrote to the editor last week did not want Shah Rukh Khan smoking on screen

However, by the late 1970s, television smoking ads had been banned and antismoking campaigns and nonsmokers' rights groups became more prevalent, likely contributing to a decline in smoking

Ice cores from Greenland, Antarctica and elsewhere record volcanic fallout (the ash and sulfuric acid are preserved in the ice) and the temperature (from certain indicators including the isotopic composition of the ice), and show that big eruptions typically are accompanied by a cooling of a good chunk of a degree for a year or two, with more cooling in some places and seasons, and less in others