Article: Campaign urges boycott of French wine

GLENDA COOPER

Consumers are being urged to use their spending power to "drop a bomb on Chirac's plans" for nuclear testing in the South Pacific by boycotting French wine.

Medact, a voluntary association of doctors formed in 1992 to campaign for the abolition of nuclear testing , and the British Nuclear Test Ban Coalition launched a"Say Non" campaign yesterday with a hard-hitting advertisement, which it hopes will play in independent cinemas around the country.

When a similar boycott was in force in Sweden in July, consumption of French wine went down by 25 per cent, the International Peace Bureau said.

The advert, made free by Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe, an advertising agency , shows a ...

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