After getting an earful from its members, the Canadian Association of Retired Persons says it will no longer accept sponsorship from tobacco companies and is giving the money it received from a partnership with tobacco company Rothmans, Benson & Hedges to an unnamed charity that cares for people with smoking-related illnesses.
Seniors' group CARP says it's quitting Big Tobacco sponsorships after response from fired up members | CBC News LoadedAfter getting an earful from CARP members, the advocacy group for older people says it will no longer accept sponsorship from tobacco companies and is giving the money it received from Rothmans, Benson & Hedges to an unnamed charity that cares for people with smoking-related illnesses.
CARP president Rudy Buttignol says he had a personal interest in exploring alternatives to cigarettes because his father smoked two packs a day and died from smoking-related causes.
"These show that many smokers aren't successful in using vaping to quit smoking, they just end up smoking and vaping." "It doesn't sound like he thinks that they did anything wrong," said Brady, the woman who wrote from Whitehorse, B.C. "And that he's kind of surprised that everybody's unhappy about it."
He went on to call Gould "woke" and asked, "Does she quit her family every time she has an argument?"Several people sent emails to CARP and shared them with Go Public, saying Buttignol's remarks about Gould were as concerning as the group taking money from a tobacco company.
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