Sports sponsorship
Sir, — I agree with the suggestion by Professor T. V. O’Donnell, professor of medicine at the Wellington Clinical School that major sports bodies should think again, before accepting sponsorship from the tobacco industry. (“The Press,” August 4). Spcrt should be encouraged," for the welfare of our people, and especially the young, but not with the aid of the big tobacco companies, which are mainly interested in their own profitability. And in the same article, Mr lan Wells, chairman oi a special sporting organisations committee, set up to retain sponsorship, said that he was not interested in thinking again about whether it should accept money from the tobacco industry. He says that he imagines the Government receives millions of dollars from sales of tobacco. Perhaps the Government does, but I suggest that if smoking were cut out altogether, the population of this country, would be millions of dollars better off, and considerably better off in health. — Yours, etc., ALAN J. WAGNER. August 4, 1978.
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