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Uganda: sportsman sent off
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Good news from Uganda! As reported in our last issue, for the past 10 years BAT has ensured minimum criticism of the outrageously inappropriate advertising for its Sportsman cigarette brand by sponsoring the annual Sportsman Gala awards ceremony of the Ugandan Sports Press Association (USPA) (Uganda: athletes fight BAT's abuse of
sports. Tobacco Control
2000;9:129-30). The sponsorship began to
bring hostile comments, intensifying after it was highlighted last year
in a newspaper article by dissenting sports journalist and athletics
coach Kevin O'Connor. Out of this episode came increasing cooperation
by like-minded health and medical organisations, a lawyers' group, and
individuals such as Mr O'Connor. Meeting under the auspices of the
ministry of health's Tobacco or Health Forum, they augmented and
multiplied the ministry's work on tobacco control. They helped
articulate a public rejection of tobacco promotion, while the
ministry's stand appeared to gain in volume and confidence as
previously
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