Book Review: A war on drugs or a war on tradition?
From the Taipei Times: “Opium has always been associated, for better or worse, with China. And almost invariably it’s been for the worse. The myth, in both the Christian West and the communist East,...
View ArticleGeoffrey York: In China, cigarettes are a kind of miracle drug
From the Globe and Mail: Here’s some exciting medical news from the Chinese government: Smoking is great for your health. Cigarettes, according to China’s tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to...
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Marlboro Country’s borderline with China – Matt Young
From Asia Times (link): The largest tobacco producer in the world is the Chinese government, and despite loosening trade barriers, it appears it wants to stay that way by mastering the game of...
View ArticleAssign Public-service Cigarettes Quotas to Spur Economy – Southern Weekend
Earlier there was an alcohol ban for officials in Henan to save taxpayer money. Now assigned cigarette spending aims to boost the local economy. Translated by CDT from Southern Weekend: On March 15,...
View ArticleTe-Ping Chen: China’s Marlboro Country
From the Slate: YUNXIAO, China—On first approach, Yunxiao seems like any other Chinese backwater caught in an uneasy industrial transition. Faded advertisements line the downtown streets, where...
View ArticleTenants who Spit Could Face Eviction in China City
Under the banner of ‘harmonious society,’ Guangzhou may introduce an ordinance that would evict residents who repeatedly spit or drop cigarette butts in public. From Times Online’s Jane Macartney:...
View ArticleChina to Ban Smoking at Indoor Public Places
China, the world’s largest producer of cigarettes and home to the most smokers. is trying again to limit smoking in public in an effort to curb the national habit. From Reuters: China, which has more...
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Warren Ellis on Pig Disposal and Chinese Innovation
At the Paris Review, Molly Crabapple and British author Warren Ellis discuss how the thousands-strong armada of dead pigs that descended on Shanghai in March helped inspire his new Kindle Single, Dead...
View ArticleTobacco Production Doubled in China
Looking to a recent report by the Research Center for Health Development [zh], the Global Times reports that tobacco production in China has nearly doubled since Beijing signed on to the WHO’s...
View ArticleChina Eyes Public Smoking Ban
As one of the world’s largest producers and consumers of tobacco, China has seen a twofold increase in cigarette production over the last decade. With a looming public health crisis predicted with more...
View ArticleChina Bans Officials From Smoking in Public
Xinhua reports that China’s State Council and the Party’s Central Committee have banned government officials from smoking in public alongside efforts from authorities to enact a national public smoking...
View ArticleChina National Tobacco, Beijing’s Smoky Cash Cow
Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story this week is an in-depth examination of China’s state-owned tobacco monopoly by Andrew Martin. China National produces 2.5 trillion cigarettes a year, and provides...
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China Confronts Price Of Its Cigarette Habit – Gordon Fairclough
From The Wall Street Journal: On the outskirts of this provincial capital stands a massive sports complex, built by state-owned cigarette manufacturer Hongta Group. Outside, a grand frieze depicts a...
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The great Chinese smoke-up (we puff for the poor ) – Jay Sheng
From Shanghaiist: If part of your New Year’s resolution is to pick up smoking, well here is yet another reason why you have just made an awesome decision (as if prospect of tarred teeth, permanent bad...
View ArticleShops Ordered to Sell Alcohol in Xinjiang Village
Amid China’s ongoing crackdown on terrorism in Xinjiang, launched last May in effort to combat increasing violence in the region and elsewhere in China, authorities have rolled out policies limiting...
View ArticleBook Review: A war on drugs or a war on tradition?
From the Taipei Times: “Opium has always been associated, for better or worse, with China. And almost invariably it’s been for the worse. The myth, in both the Christian West and the communist East,...
View ArticleGeoffrey York: In China, cigarettes are a kind of miracle drug
From the Globe and Mail: Here’s some exciting medical news from the Chinese government: Smoking is great for your health. Cigarettes, according to China’s tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marlboro Country’s borderline with China – Matt Young
From Asia Times (link): The largest tobacco producer in the world is the Chinese government, and despite loosening trade barriers, it appears it wants to stay that way by mastering the game of...
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China Confronts Price Of Its Cigarette Habit – Gordon Fairclough
From The Wall Street Journal: On the outskirts of this provincial capital stands a massive sports complex, built by state-owned cigarette manufacturer Hongta Group. Outside, a grand frieze depicts a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The great Chinese smoke-up (we puff for the poor ) – Jay Sheng
From Shanghaiist: If part of your New Year’s resolution is to pick up smoking, well here is yet another reason why you have just made an awesome decision (as if prospect of tarred teeth, permanent bad...
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