Kelly Clarkson has set light to a feud after appearing in a billboard ad for cigarettes in Indonesia.
Protestors are livid to see the country’s most popular brand of fags, L.A. Lights is sponsoring the singer’s show in Jakarta.
Posters have been put up all around town with the ‘American Idol’ winner’s face next to the brand of smokes.
The marketing ploy comes just two years after Alicia Keys objected to a similar tobacco-fuelled sponsorship deal.
The ‘Empire State of Mind’ star insisted the logo was removed from all ads promoting her Jakarta gig.
Now U.S. based anti-smoking groups want Kelly, who's currently touring Australia before heading to Asia, to do the same.
Matt Myers , the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, tells the Associated Press,
"If Kelly Clarkson goes ahead with the concert, she is by choice being a spokesman for the tobacco industry and helping them to market to children.
"She has the power now to turn this situation around and to send a clear message to Indonesian young people and, frankly, to the young people of the world."
See more of the controversial songbird in the video below…
Protestors are livid to see the country’s most popular brand of fags, L.A. Lights is sponsoring the singer’s show in Jakarta.
Posters have been put up all around town with the ‘American Idol’ winner’s face next to the brand of smokes.
The marketing ploy comes just two years after Alicia Keys objected to a similar tobacco-fuelled sponsorship deal.
The ‘Empire State of Mind’ star insisted the logo was removed from all ads promoting her Jakarta gig.
Now U.S. based anti-smoking groups want Kelly, who's currently touring Australia before heading to Asia, to do the same.
Matt Myers , the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, tells the Associated Press,
"If Kelly Clarkson goes ahead with the concert, she is by choice being a spokesman for the tobacco industry and helping them to market to children.
"She has the power now to turn this situation around and to send a clear message to Indonesian young people and, frankly, to the young people of the world."
See more of the controversial songbird in the video below…
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