ISLAMABAD – Pakistani actress Saba Qamar has tackled the stigma surroundingwomen smoking in the country.
The Hindi Medium actress posted a picture from a latest photo shoot on herInstagram which shows her holding a boom box and grooving with a cigarettein her mouth.
The caption of the picture read, “Mard peeyein toh wah, hum peeyein tohhaaaa. Tum khao toh chips, hum khaain toh aaloo [If men smoke then you gowow but if we [women] smoke then you criticise. If you eat then they arefries, if we eat they are potatoes].”
“Smoking is injurious to all, not only to women,” she added in an apparentreference to criticism from certain segments of the society after a pictureand video of Pakistani actress Mahira Khan smoking went viral.