Superstar Mahesh Babu is setting himself as a role model for youth after becoming heartthrob of people, men and women. Enjoying such big fan base across all sections of movie loving audiences is no joke. Yet he is simple to the core and humble to the ground.

The actor who was once a 2-3 pack a smoker is now a better person abstaining from smoking for over four years. A close buddy gifted Allen Carr's book on 'How to quit smoking easily' to the actor and after reading it Mahesh has changed to become better, a non-smoker. He quit his chain smoking habit and is very happy to have taken that decision.

What is inspiring is that he has been requesting his directors to come up with smoking scenes only should the script strictly demand for such scenes. How good to see Mahesh setting a role model like this?!