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SMOKE, SMOKE, SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE
In April, Guangzhou and Jiangmen in Guangdong province became two
of 20 cities across China to try a bold experiment: a total ban
on smoking in public places, including schools, restaurants and
government offices. Officials had to be specially trained to
enforce the regulations, imposed at the behest of the National
Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, one of the
leaders in the country's nascent campaign against smoking.
But it is an uphill and probably losing battle, because its
adversaries are not only well-financed and powerful tobacco
firms, but also because they are state-owned and the government
earns 10 per cent of its annual revenue from smoking, making the
industry the country's biggest single taxpayer.
China is modernizing in a great many ways but on tobacco it is
bucking a global trend driven by the awareness that smoking is a
public health menace.
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