Celebrities using drugs should face ban: Survey

More than half of respondents have called for a ban on celebrities who have drug problems, a poll released yesterday by China Youth Daily and sina.com showed.

Celebrities topped the list of those at high risk of drug addiction according to nearly 73 percent of the 2,031 respondents, and some 56 percent advocated harsher punishment like a ban on drug-addicted celebrities because of their impact on society, the survey shows.

"Celebrities who use drugs send a dangerous message to youth," deputy director of the Beijing Anti-Doping Committee, who would give only his surname as Shi, said in an interview yesterday.