Lleyton under fire for smoke
July 9 2002
Lleyton Hewitt is under fire from anti-smoking groups after pictures of the celebrating Wimbledon champion smoking a Cuban cigar featured in newspapers around Australia today.
The Queensland Cancer Fund said the world number one had sent a terrible message not only to Australian children but to children around the world.
"We're dealing with very impressionable young people here," the fund's acting executive director Alan Hooper said.
"We're not dealing with adults who are able to make informed choices.
"We're dealing with people who see a sporting hero, someone they admire and look up to and in most cases would like to emulate."
Quit Victoria also called on Hewitt to set a better example to young people...
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/09/1025667134205.html
OK, what the fuck is up here? He is the best tennis player in the world, aged 21, just won the big one, and he's not allowed to have a nice black cuban to celebrate? Or are they just pissed off that he posed with it in his mouth? Either way it's an overreactive piece of shit IMHO.
BigTrancer