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01
November 2006
Kate
Moss Singled Out In Drug
Campaign
Colombia's
vice president has
accused coke-using
celebrities of fuelling
the country's civil war,
singling out
Kate
Moss
for criticism.
Francisco
Santos said it was
"baffling" that Kate
Moss had won so many new
contracts following
allegations she used
cocaine.
He
told the Associated
Press that the model's
success was indicative
of European attitudes
towards drugs, which
finances armed drug
groups in
Colombia.
Mr
Santos is launching an
ad campaign under the
banner "the cocaine
curse".
"We
need to tell Europeans
that that line of coke
they snort is tainted in
blood," he
said.
Kate
Moss lost several
modelling contracts,
including Burberry and
H&M, after a
newspaper photographed
her allegedly taking
cocaine.
No
criminal charges were
brought and she publicly
"accepted
responsibility" for the
scandal. She entered a
rehabilitation clinic
for a month of
therapy.
She
has since gone on to
secure a number of
lucrative contracts and
was recently hired as a
designer for high street
retailer Top
Shop.
But
Mr Santos said: "To me
it's baffling, that
somebody who helps cause
so much pain in Colombia
is doing better than
ever and winning more
contracts than
ever."
A
spokesman for Kate Moss
refused to comment on
the Colombian vice
president's
quotes.
Mr
Santos is in London to
launch "the cocaine
curse" campaign on
Wednesday along with 11
European anti-drugs
officials, before
attending a conference
featuring comments by
victims of Colombia's
conflict.
Colombia
is the world's largest
cocaine producer and is
over-run by drug cartels
and armed
gangs.
The
advertising campaign,
funded by European
governments, will be
placed on billboards and
in clubs, as well as
running on
television.
The
European Monitoring
Center for Drugs and
Drug addiction reports
cocaine use in the UK
and Spain has doubled
over the past 10
years.
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