CLARKSON UNDER ATTACK OVER CIGARETTE FIRM SPONSORSHIP
Anti-smoking protesters have taken aim at pop star KELLY CLARKSON for lig hting up a fuming feud in Indonesia by appearing in billboard ads for cig arette company Diarum.
The tobacco firm’s bosses are sponsoring the Since U Been Gone hitmaker ’s 29 April (10) concert in Jakarta - and they’ve splashed their L.A. Lig hts brand logo all over posters advertising the show.
The marketing ploy comes two years after Alicia Keys objected to a simi lar tobacco-fuelled sponsorship deal in Indonesia.
The No One singer insisted the cigarette logo was removed from all ads promoting her Jakarta concert, and U.S.-based anti-smoking groups want Cl arkson to do the same.
Matt Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, tells the Associated Press, "If Kelly Clarkson goes ahead with the concert, she is by choice being a spokesman for the tobacco industry and helping them to market to children.
"She has the power now to turn this situation around and to send a clea r message to Indonesian young people and, frankly, to the young people of the world."
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