Tobacco companies often seem to direct their advertising campaigns at adolescents-for example, the campaign using the cartoon character Joe Camel.'These advertisements are thought to influence adolescents' perceptions and behaviour,2 and sponsorship of sports events by tobacco companies may have the same effect.3 We studied the effect of sports sponsorship on children's experimentation with tobacco.
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