Malawi football club inks controversial tobacco deal Malawi's most prestigious football team, Big Bullets have controversially inked a $900,000 (822,000 euros) sponsorship deal with a cigarette manufacturing company, attracting the wrath of a local rights group.The deal, with the country's sole cigarette manufacturer Nyasa Manufacturing Company (NMC), will be effective from January and the sponsorship money will be spread over five years.But local NGO, Drug Fight Malawi, has attacked the deal, saying this was a "deliberate and well-orchestrated strategy for the company to market its products and increase tobacco consumption among children."Bullets, twice champions of the country's Super League and who command the biggest fan base spread throughout the tiny and soccer-mad southern African nation, has been without sponsorship for nine years since former president Bakili Muluzi sponsored them for two years."This is a strategic business partnership and uses the team's supporters' base to enhance their brand," Sam Chilunga, who chairs the 1967-founded team, told AFP.NMC finance chief Fleet Haiya told reporters that the team "will boost our brand since the number of supporters is overwhelming."But Drug Fight Malawi's executive director Nelson Zakeyo said in a statement the deal was "in sharp contradiction to the healthy lifestyle of sports as espoused by FIFA."He said in Malawi, one of the largest growers of tobacco which wires in 60 percent of foreign exchange, more than 26 percent of men and seven percent of youths smoke tobacco
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