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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 38, Number 26. 1975
Racist smoker irked
Racist smoker irked
Dear Sir,
As a Peter Stuyvesant smoker I should like to protest strongly against the current ban on the sale of these cigarettes in the cafe.
I am told that the reason for the ban is that the profits from the sale of these cigarettes go to a South African company which exploits Black South African labour. I have every sympathy for the plight of Black South Africans, but surely this measure is going just too far?
Why should I and other Peter Stuyvesant smokers have to suffer at the expense of some misplaced idealism.
Yours faithfully,
H. M. Foot
(Association policy is opposed to the sale of any Rothman's products in the Union. Stuyvesant's are part of the Rothman's empire. This policy is not the result of "misplaced idealism" but a response to the continued calls for isolation and boycott of South African internationally by representatives of the majority of South Africans who need more concrete support than your nicotine-laced sympathy—Ed.)
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