Please Say No. Please Let Us Not Associate Parkour With Smoking
Mark Toorock of American Parkour just forwarded me a very disturbing piece of news. A Tobacco company is sponsoring a five-city `Parkour Rally` event in China in the name of charity, but what is clearly a veiled attempt at targeting youth and overcoming current promotion and advertising restrictions through conventional mediums on Tobacco companies. What is even more disturbing is the fact that these so-called traceurs decided to sell themselves out and prostitute our discipline for want of a little fame and money.
Please show your support people. As a community we are still trying to figure out a good way to battle this, but for now, we are trying to raise as much awareness about it in the Parkour communities as possible, and to get the support of all traceurs. To voice your concern, post in our forum thread by clicking the `Read More` button below. Or alternately, you could post on our Facebook page here http://www.facebook.com/ParkourMumbai. Once we have a more clear-cut line of action defined, I will post back informing everyone what we have decided to do, and how you can help further.
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