Celebs castigated for smoking in cover photos

Two popular celebrities drew flak last year for magazine covers showing them smoking.

 

Multi-awarded actress Nora Aunor was criticized last September by various sectors for posing on the cover of Yes! Magazine with a lit cigarette in her hand. 

 

The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jo-Ann Maglipon, defended the cover photo, saying it "best captures the iconic star as she is today."

 

Maglipon also said that it is within the magazine staff’s right to freedom of expression to choose which cover photo it wants to release.

 

Days later, television host and actress Anne Curtis also received criticisms for depicting the act of smoking on the cover of the October issue of Rogue Magazine.