Tobacco Co. and paintball

[Carbon]

Hypothetical.
for a moment, assume you have a tourney team.

If ALL of your tourney/paintball cost (this includes team practice) were paid by Big Tobacco Would you let them sponsor you?

[Target Practice]

No.

[gc82000]

As long I have the ability to say that no I do not use or endorse the use for minors and Pregnant women. But are you also including markers, packs, pads and masks, room and board, travel and what not in this Sponsorship. I would want a full sponsor, I dont see reason why having them as a sponsor should be a bad thing.

[Echo419]

umm... I would go for this in a heartbeat its not like you have to smoke one ur sponsorship

[FreakBaller12]

umm... I would go for this in a heartbeat its not like you have to smoke one ur sponsorship

Yea but you'll be promoting it to little kids, it will work out like this. Little Timmy sees pro PSP team with tobacco sponsor, he thinks smoking is now cool. He'll start to smoke now and probably get his little friends into it to. You won't be very popular with the parents.
Or you'll be at a local tourny and be advertising it to even more little kids.
I would never accept a tobacco sponsor.

[Lohman446]

With the hypothetical I can be as morally upstanding as everyone else and say no I wouldn't because...

Realistically - if it were offered chances are I would be playing

[Recon by Fire]

YES, not that I love tobacco (I don't smoke) but as far as I can tell it is a legal product and we still have free will. Even 30 years ago you knew smoking was not healthy, we never needed anyone to tell us it was not. (breathing super heated gas into your lungs and choking, how could we have known that was bad?!). Save it....

[etjoyride]

NO, we shouldn't start bringing drugs into paintball

[Lohman446]

NO, we shouldn't start bringing drugs into paintball

Knee jerk simplistic reaction with wording designed for maximum reaction without consideration of what they really mean. What about Bayer Aspirin / Tylenol etc., would you accept a sponsorship from them?

[CrimsonGhost]

Yes.( I do NOT smoke,do drugs of ANY type ...not even tylenol.)
Why not?

If you wouldn't take a tobacco companies $$$ would you take and beer compnies? How about a pharmacutical company?
People are taking dirt naps because of these products as well...and tobacco,booze,perscription drugs ARE LEGAL and so they SHOULD be allowed to be advertised.

Just an example... Budwiser in NASCAR ...is that peomoting drinking and driving?

I LOVE NASCAR by the way.

**And now for the soap box **
We don't mind that there are beer adverts with football,baseball,etc.
Not to mention the ILLEGAL drugs that are so glorified in most modern media.(Pot,LSD,Mushrooms,X ..etc.)
Since steroids are so hot a topic right now ...You may as well be advertising for them .
After all, little Johnny sees that His fave baseball hero uses steroids...He will at least find out more about them.
Tobacco wouldn't be any different in my mind.
We have known it is dangerous for years.
There is enough info out there about how bad it is for you to smoke .
I am not forcing ANYONE to smoke or buy a product.
Little Johnny will see the ad for the product but WILL NEVER see me using it.
So if He wants to try it ..its on HIM and his PARENTS .
If it is "little Johnny" That we are realy worried about.

Or is this another one of those ...My parents don't want to pay attention to what their child is doing things? So we will make a law so that EVERYONE has to suffer.
Yet another "It takes a village to raise a child" feel good ,its everyones fault but the people who had the kids things? (Sorry...cant control the rage on this subject)
There are a bunch of advertised products in pro sports right now that are potentialy bad for you.
Mountain Dew,Coke,Pepsi etc. Can cause cancer in the digestive tract,diabetes, etc.
Fast food chains Like Mc Donalds,BK, Causing Cancer, overwieght,cardio issues.
Yes, I know these examples are if you drink or consume to much of them...but its not unlikely that it would happen.
No more than smoking.

FREE will ...the choice to do what you want without having the GOVT or ANYONE else legislate you doing it.
This nanny govt crap has to stop.

Oh and ...Drugs ARE ALREADY in this sport , do NOT kid yourself to think that there aren't.
HELLO !!?!?!?! Stoned Assasins? ( I am not saying whats right and wrong...just stating a FACT about the recreational pharmacuticals in use...OUT IN THE OPEN within this sport)

[athomas]

I couldn't do it. It would go against everything I stand for. How could I tell people that cigarettes are bad while I'm sporting jersey that says smoke our "Brand X".

[Big'n slo]

For free Red Man!

Hells yea

[Indignant]

NO, we shouldn't start bringing drugs into paintball

It's way to late for that one...

[Bear_Claw]

If i was at all intrested in turny i 100% would take that sponsership.

I have never and never wil smoke or do any drugs. And im old enough to go back to when smokeing was considered ok. I made it trough without trying it even with the huge advertisments and even commercials. Why should i worry bout some other kid not doing the same?

One thing in life i leart is ya gotta look out for number 1 as no one else will sooner the little ones learn that the better off in life they will be. Getting free sponsor ship for all gear and travel cost is a great oppertunity even if by a company you dislike.

[Kevmaster]

Big Tobacco Pays (Paid) for my college education...why not let them pay for my paint too?