Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar on the occasion of Anti-Tobacco Day in a public gathering, says “ I never accepted such offers, this was my promise I made to my father.
Sachin Said;
“I just came out of school when I started playing for India. I started getting many advertisement offers but my father told me never to advertise tobacco products. I got many such offers but I never accepted, It was a promise I made to my father.” Sachin stated.
He said when he started to play for India, he started to get many ads offered including that promoting tobacco products his father asked him to never promote tobacco products.
“He (Father) told me that I am a role model and many people will follow my work. That’s why I have never supported tobacco products or alcohol. In the 1990s, I didn’t have a sticker on my bat, I didn’t have a contract. But everyone on the team was endorsing two brands in particular – Wills and Four Square” Sachin said.
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“I didn’t break my promise to my father by not endorsing these brands. I got many offers to promote his brand by putting his sticker on his bat but I didn’t want to do all that publicity. I stayed away from both these things and never broke my promise to my father”, Sachin Tendulkar added.