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Kelly Clarkson is under fire and lighting up a smoking debate among anti-tobacco advocates after recruiting a cigarette manufacturer to sponsor her upcoming tour stop in Indonesia — the world’s fourth most populated nation. The tobacco firm is sponsoring the “Since U Been Gone” hitmaker’s April 29 concert in Jakarta – and they’ve splashed their L.A. Lights brand logo all over promotional posters advertising the show. <\/span><\/p>\n Critics argue that Clarkson’s deal with L.A. Lights, the country’s most popular brand of cigarettes, will only further advocate and promote smoking in Indonesia — which seems to be the last place on Earth where the dangerous addiction needs to be encouraged.<\/p>\n Although smoking has declined in many Western countries, it has risen in Indonesia, according to The Associated Press. Approximately 63 percent of all men in the nation smoke and one-third of the overall population smokes, an increase of 26 percent since 1995. Smoking-related illnesses kill at least 200,000 Indonesians each year.<\/p>\n \u201cIndonesia is a big concern, a big epidemic, a big population, and very little control,\u201d <\/em>said Dr. Prabhat Jha, a tobacco control expert at the University of Toronto\u2019s Center for Global Health Research. \u201cThey have a chaotic taxation and regulatory structure. They have made the mistake of letting the Marlboro Man into the country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Clarkson’s controversy comes two years after Alicia Keys objected to a similar tobacco-fuelled sponsorship deal in Indonesia. A. Keys demanded that the cigarette logos be removed from all ads promoting her Jakarta concert, and US-based anti-smoking groups want Kelly to do the same.<\/p>\n Matt Myers, President of the Tobacco-Free Kids Campaign, says:<\/p>\n “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 clear message to Indonesian young people and, frankly, to the young people of the world.”<\/em><\/p>\n Kelly Clarkson is under fire and lighting up a smoking debate among anti-tobacco advocates after recruiting a cigarette manufacturer to sponsor her upcoming tour stop in Indonesia — the world’s fourth most populated nation. The tobacco firm is sponsoring the “Since U Been Gone” hitmaker’s April 29 concert in Jakarta – and they’ve splashed their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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