Remove Blackburn Rover Sponsor: Totally Wicked (vaping company)
Remove Blackburn Rover Sponsor: Totally Wicked (vaping company)
The Issue
On all of Blackburn Rovers' kits this season: Home, away, 3rd, their sponsor features. It is one of the leading vape companies in the UK, selling a variety of these products; from e-liquids to disposable vapes.
It is astounding that such a company, selling these sorts of products would be the main sponsor of a large football club in the EFL Championship. Everyone sees the shirts when watching the games live or on TV, young children see the catchy logo on their favourite player's shirt. Imagine what sort of habits this can cause. This is sending the completely wrong message, as footballers are meant to be the epitome of athleticism and promoting vapes will do the opposite for people. It can also affect those recovering from nicotine or drug addictions as they will constantly be tempted upon seeing this brand. It's a similar effect to having all these betting companies as sponsors.
As aforementioned it can result in a variety of consequences, such as young children developing a curiosity in vaping, which could potentially lead to other substances. They could also get the wrong idea in their head, about how their favourite footballers vape and do this stuff so it's okay and maybe even good for them to. Now is the time to act before it goes too far. Clubs promote their sponsors a lot and so they are feature in the stadium, on their shirts and on the website. Before the consequences occur, the sponsor should be removed.
Steve Brine, Conservative chairman of the Health and Social Care Committee, said the Championship football team should "look themselves in the mirror". SNP frontbencher, Kirsten Oswald, said: "We would find that absolutely unacceptable if a football club came out with cigarette branding on their shirts, and I cannot understand why it would be any more acceptable for a football club to come out with vaping advertising." Ms Oswald said: "This is really unacceptable. If we're serious about dealing with the harms to children and young people, we really should expect that sports clubs are going to be somewhere that they can see positive imagery."
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The Issue
On all of Blackburn Rovers' kits this season: Home, away, 3rd, their sponsor features. It is one of the leading vape companies in the UK, selling a variety of these products; from e-liquids to disposable vapes.
It is astounding that such a company, selling these sorts of products would be the main sponsor of a large football club in the EFL Championship. Everyone sees the shirts when watching the games live or on TV, young children see the catchy logo on their favourite player's shirt. Imagine what sort of habits this can cause. This is sending the completely wrong message, as footballers are meant to be the epitome of athleticism and promoting vapes will do the opposite for people. It can also affect those recovering from nicotine or drug addictions as they will constantly be tempted upon seeing this brand. It's a similar effect to having all these betting companies as sponsors.
As aforementioned it can result in a variety of consequences, such as young children developing a curiosity in vaping, which could potentially lead to other substances. They could also get the wrong idea in their head, about how their favourite footballers vape and do this stuff so it's okay and maybe even good for them to. Now is the time to act before it goes too far. Clubs promote their sponsors a lot and so they are feature in the stadium, on their shirts and on the website. Before the consequences occur, the sponsor should be removed.
Steve Brine, Conservative chairman of the Health and Social Care Committee, said the Championship football team should "look themselves in the mirror". SNP frontbencher, Kirsten Oswald, said: "We would find that absolutely unacceptable if a football club came out with cigarette branding on their shirts, and I cannot understand why it would be any more acceptable for a football club to come out with vaping advertising." Ms Oswald said: "This is really unacceptable. If we're serious about dealing with the harms to children and young people, we really should expect that sports clubs are going to be somewhere that they can see positive imagery."
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The Decision Makers
Petition created on 9 August 2023