24 schools protest against Cigarette and Alcohol Companies
College students making their statement known to the alcohol and cigarette producers in the country
APIA: Thursday 17 May 2012: Students from twenty four schools around Samoa came together this morning to emphasize their mission statement for a Smokefree and Alcohol free environment by marching against the companies that produce cigarettes and alcohol in the country.
The march started from the British American Tobacco Samoa (BATS) premises a few meters inland from the Vailima Breweries at the Vaitele Industrial Zone.
Students carried placards and banners that carried anti-smoking and anti-alcohol messages and singing as the workers of both companies watched the long march that held up the traffic for half an hour.
Close to one thousand students took part and ended up lining the exterior security fence of Vailima Breweries singing and holding up their messages on placards and banners.
Uaea Laki Apelu, one of the organisers of the march said that both cigarettes and alcohol have contributed to the downfall of many Samoan youths. He believes that the Government should look at banning these products for good.
“The victims are always people while the companies make millions,” said the veteran Sports Administrator.
The march coincides with the schools Smokefree rugby tournament at Apia park.
The Smokefree and Alcohol free Task Force include the Ministry of Education and Health officials who believe that these products are no different from marijuana.
The Smokefree and Alcohol Free Task Force is now considering the peace protest march to be an annual event.
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It is the system of government we live in that is destroying us!! The influences of westernization is turning our people into fat slobby, lazy figures!!
I’m currently here at the University of the South Pacific, and by careful observation, i can say that the Matai system is the only governing system effective to keep law and order within our motherland. Such system should be fully given the authority to control state affairs, and there is way to improve such system passed down to us by our forefathers. The influence of Westernization is merely making things better for our nation but intruding on our way of life. The Parliament system needs to stop intruding on the small islands of the South Pacific, seeing their influence in the Solomons have destroyed their way of life indefinitely
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