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 Control2000;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. …