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T_i_B

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Thu Nov 5, 2015, 08:31 AM Nov 2015

Leicester MP urges Coca-Cola Christmas truck tour to avoid city

Source: BBC

An MP is asking Coca-Cola not to bring its Christmas truck to Leicester, accusing the company of marketing a "real health hazard".

Keith Vaz insists he does not want to be a "killjoy", but said the truck would send the wrong message in a city where Type 2 diabetes is rising and a third of children have tooth decay.

He predicts people will protest if the truck does come to the city.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-34718933



For all Coca-Cola's fault's, I find the claim that people will protest against this to be a trifle odd. There are far greater causes worth protesting about than this.
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Leicester MP urges Coca-Cola Christmas truck tour to avoid city (Original Post) T_i_B Nov 2015 OP
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