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Posts published in “Day: May 6, 2009

Smokers are welcome to China

If you are worried about shrinking public space for smoking, move over to China. The Communist government in Gongan county in Central China has turned smoker friendly. Just to mop up more revenue. ‘Smoke or face fine’ is the decree to government employees. More than 350 million people smoke in Gongan. One million of them die of smoking-related diseases every year. The ‘puff more’ dictum has something to do with inter- county tax structures. Gongan…