IPL 2025 will ban alcohol and tobacco advertising, Health Ministry wrote a letter to IPL Chairman

IPL 2025 is starting on March 22 with the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Even before the start of the competition, the Union Health Ministry has written an important letter to the IPL Chairman asking to ban all types of tobacco and alcohol promotion, including surrogate advertising.

In a letter written to IPL Chairman Arun Dhumal by Director General of Health Services Atul Goyal, it has been said that cricketers are role models for the youth of India. They should not be associated with any kind of tobacco or alcohol advertising directly or indirectly.

The Director General of Health Services expressed the view that IPL should implement the rules banning surrogate ads for any sort of tobacco-alcohol products. The ads should be excluded from the stadium as well as during telecasts. Tobacco or alcoholic products should be retailed in no affiliated events or sporting complexes during IPL 2025. Players or commentators should be discouraged who endorsing alcoholic or tobacco products in any direct or indirect sense.