Aid for cigarette plant
Sir, • — As a non-smoking taxpayer, I take very strong exception to my money t '.ng used to sponsor ciga-rette-manufacture in Samoa, It would be of more value for our Government to spend this money educating smokers in this country not to smoke, thus saving ourselves a massive health bill, and for non-smokers, acute discomfort from having to breathe air polluted by smokers. My second objection echoes that of the British Medical Council Journal (vol. 4, P. 65, 1971) in that we have already produced millions of slaves to cigarettes in our own land. To export this slavery to developing countries would be very wrong. Tobacco companies, facing a rising tide of opposition to smoking in the Western world, are now sacrificing the health of Third World countries to maintain their profits. I find our Government-sponsored support of Rothmans Samoan development to be a cynical disregard of an “aid’’ programme. — Yours, etc., R. H. FINDLAY. September 6, 1978.
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