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Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) Farhan Akhtar is immersed in the post-production work of his much anticipated "Don". But he's baffled by eyebrows raised over shots of Shah Rukh Khan smoking in the promos.

Farhan is amused. "It's become the order of the Friday to raise eyebrows at every film. The closer a film gets to release, the more you get to hear some things you like and some things that you don't. The trick is to take both in your stride. At the end of the day, the film will speak for itself. I'd rather focus on my work."

About Shah Rukh's controversial smoking shots, Farhan chuckles, "We've actually established Don's character as a non-smoker. He keeps holding an unlit cigarette. He's trying very hard to quit. But as much he tries he can't ward off the temptation of smoking all the time. That's how I've observed people behave when they try to quit smoking. I thought it would be a devious personality trait to put into Shah Rukh's character."

He laughs off charges of espousing smoking habits. "Please I don't smoke. So far I've never shown my characters smoking in my films, because I never felt the need to. I thought using this weakness in the hero's personality to show his human side was justified. And that wasn't the intention. Too much has been made of it."

Farhan thinks it's important to see situations and traits within a film's context. "You can't generalise and apply the same rules to all situations. Of course we all know smoking is bad. Please, if you asked me to sign up for an anti-smoking campaign in Mumbai I'd be very happy to do so.