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Furore over puffing French general's photo in book 

A photograph of a late French general smoking cigarette published in a social science book of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has caused the anti-tobacco activists to up their ante.

The National Organization for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE), a Goa based non-profit organisation, has written to the NCERT, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Goa government demanding withdrawal of the controversial photograph from the class 10 textbook.

On page 44 on the chapter 'The Communist Movement and Vietnamese Nationalism', the late French general Henry Navare is shown smoking a cigarette.

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