Jump to full article: The Independent Online (IOL) (za), 2008-06-30
Intro: Patricia Lambert is not one to mince her words.
One of the star attractions at a media summit hosted last week in Joburg by the American Cancer Society, and the Cancer Association of SA, among others, South African-born Lambert is director of the new International Legal Consortium at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, an NGO based in Washington.
She began her presentation by describing the tobacco industry as "evil".
"Their PR and marketing firms are spreading disease and death in the way that no virus has been able to do yet," she said.
"Yet in Africa, donor money goes to dealing with infectious diseases - HIV, tuberculosis and malaria instead."
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