China has 300 million smokers (that’s about the entire population of the United States, by the way). It’s been estimated that 60% to 75% of all Chinese men smoke, puffing an average of 15 cigarettes per day.
I put this information here because:
- I want to see if the graphic can fit on the page
- I helped achieve this impressive statistic
- I feel like I am part of a team that is blitzing every other country . . . we smoked them!
- back home 'cigarette' is a dirty word that can only be used by Medical Experts in government sponsored programmes aimed at stamping out the dreaded 'C' trade
- I want the sponsors of NGO's campaigning against smoking in China to see how ineffective their work has been ... then they will pull the plug on them
For the record I smoke HONG HE because:
- at 5RMB a pkt they are relatively cheap
- they are the nearest taste to those back home (which must cost RMB50+ by now)
- I can pronounce the name, though you do have to put a bit of phlegm into the 'He' part to be understood in rural areas
- they do not have stupid blue filters
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