Smoking in China

Canada's Globe&Mail informs me of a fact that does not get much coverage over here in the US of A.

In China, we are told, the Government has a monopoly cigarette industry. Their tobacco industry employs 60 million people and provides 10% of the nations tax revenue. And oddly enough, the end result is that the government doesn't exactly promote a non-smoking policy. The attitudes towards smoking are a tiny bit different than we have over here.