Cigarettes, according to China’s tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to prevent ulcers. They also reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease, relieve schizophrenia, boost your brain cells, speed up your thinking, improve your reactions and increase your working efficiency.
Pay no attention to those lung cancer warnings – they’re nonsense. You’re more likely to get cancer from cooking smoke! Those are the words of wisdom from China’s state-owned tobacco monopoly, the world’s most successful cigarette-marketing agency. With annual sales of 1.8 trillion cigarettes, the Chinese are responsible for nearly 1/3 of all cigarettes smoked on the whole planet.
The official website of the tobacco monopoly claims cigarettes are a kind of miracle drug: solving your health problems, helping your lifestyle, strengthening the equality of women, and even eliminating loneliness and depression. “Smoking removes your troubles and worries,” says a 37-year-old female magazine editor, quoted approvingly on the website. “Holding a cigarette is like having a walking stick in your hand, giving you support. “Quitting smoking would bring you misery, shortening your life.” Such statements are widely believed in China.
2/3 of Chinese men are smokers, and surveys show that approx. 90% believe their habit has little effect on their health, or is good for them. Even in China’s medical community, 60% of male doctors are smokers. No wonder Western tobacco companies are drooling over the Chinese market of 360 million smokers.
This week, a group of Canadian experts went to China in an effort to convince Chinese smokers of more realistic effects of smoking. They distributed anti-smoking posters, visited cancer patients, showed the graphic warnings on Canadian cigarette packs, and lectured on how the anti-smoking campaign has reduced Canada’s lung-cancer rate. They face a struggle in China, a country where the tobacco industry provides 60 million jobs and 10% of national tax revenue.
“In China today, the economy comes first and everything else is secondary, including health care,” Dr. Jean Couture, a Quebec surgeon, said. “You wonder if anyone in the government is conscious of how great the smoking problem is. There’s no public education program. The Chinese anti-smoking association is very weak and has almost no money. Within 20 years, China could have the majority of all smoking deaths in the world.” Couture leads anti-smoking campaigns in 4 Chinese provinces, and has been involved with China’s smoking problem since 1990.
As Canadians distributed posters at a hospital, they saw a number of people smoking in the hospital. A hospital shop was openly selling cigarettes. While smoking rates have fallen sharply in Canada in the past two decades, the rate in China is still rising. The number of Chinese smokers is growing by 3 million a year, despite an estimated 1.3 million tobacco-related deaths annually.
Chinese cigarettes are cheap — as little as 30 cents a pack — and the health warnings are hidden in small print on the sides of the packages. Though cigarette advertising is technically illegal, tobacco companies are allowed to promote their corporate names. Children can easily buy cigarettes at Chinese shops, despite an official ban on sales to those under 18. Money, money, money.
Hmmmmm. Very few people can read the sarcasm in your title but judging by the spelling and grammar in their answers, very few people can read at all.
ANONYMOUS PERSON AND MYSELF ARE THE ONLY ONES TO UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION,why don’t you guys calm down long enough to read slowly and thoroughly.
if they are trying to get people to buy them, y would they tell them they were bad? OF COURSE THEY R GOING 2 TELL PPL ALL KINDS OF BULL ABOUT HOW GOOD THEY ARE! are you that ignorant? cigarettes are bad. period. and no, its not awesome.
well then move to f*cking canada or china you gint.
wow. 8 facts about how great smoking is for you. but about 100 why you shouldnt.
there are 2000 chemicals in a cigarette that are foreign and cause pain to your body.
hahahahah
“Those are the words of wisdom from China’s state-owned tobacco monopoly, the world’s most successful cigarette-marketing ”
of course they r not gunna tell u its bad… THEY R MAKING BIG MONEEEYY!! LMAO!! oh lord lol
cigarettes ..shorten ur breathing..
fill up ur lungs with nasty ****
& do many other things… BAD …as “good” as u say too
rlly ? wat kinda idiot are ya ?
First of all, stop bashing China. The decision to smoke or do anything stupid with your life is your own. Secondly, the rest of you people are idiots. He’s not propagating smoking. It’s called satire…LOOK IT UP.
Lovely example of brainwashing! I’m sure they’re right – smoking is good for you, just like small amounts of melamine are good for babies! It is very sad that making money so often comes before the health of others.
didn’t like 30,000 babies got sick from tainted milk in china, also thousands of people for bad beef. So are you seriously going to listen to what they have to say.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… EVER SMOKE ANYTHING UNLESS YOU WANNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
funny how its the tobacco company telling them that, obviously they arent oging to say anyhting is wrong with smoking, they want to promote smoking!
Not to be completely rude… But you’re an idiot!
Ditto on the comment/answer below… Plus you smell funky!
Whatever, when you die of cancer, I won’t care. I’ll be laughing. But, that was very interesting.
Isn’t it great that your life expectancy will decline by 10 years!
Get a proper life and stop smokin’
it’s never awesome to be a smoker, every breath of smoke shortens your life.
Great benefits until you get the first signs of cancer.
you. dumb. quit spreading your filth.
thats a bunch of shitt :p they’re liars god don’t you people know anything??
convince yourself that smoking is good, all you want. but in reality, it’s not!
So…what’s your question?
I have nothing against less Chinese people.
your an idiot and i hate you
ye i guess its pretty good
yeahh but they cause cancer
no not really because you gain some and lose some
i don’t smoke but with this news i might just take it up
Cigarettes, according to China’s tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to prevent ulcers. They also reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease, relieve schizophrenia, boost your brain cells, speed up your thinking, improve your reactions and increase your working efficiency.
Pay no attention to those lung cancer warnings – they’re nonsense. You’re more likely to get cancer from cooking smoke! Those are the words of wisdom from China’s state-owned tobacco monopoly, the world’s most successful cigarette-marketing agency. With annual sales of 1.8 trillion cigarettes, the Chinese are responsible for nearly 1/3 of all cigarettes smoked on the whole planet.
The official website of the tobacco monopoly claims cigarettes are a kind of miracle drug: solving your health problems, helping your lifestyle, strengthening the equality of women, and even eliminating loneliness and depression. “Smoking removes your troubles and worries,” says a 37-year-old female magazine editor, quoted approvingly on the website. “Holding a cigarette is like having a walking stick in your hand, giving you support. “Quitting smoking would bring you misery, shortening your life.” Such statements are widely believed in China.
2/3 of Chinese men are smokers, and surveys show that approx. 90% believe their habit has little effect on their health, or is good for them. Even in China’s medical community, 60% of male doctors are smokers. No wonder Western tobacco companies are drooling over the Chinese market of 360 million smokers.
This week, a group of Canadian experts went to China in an effort to convince Chinese smokers of more realistic effects of smoking. They distributed anti-smoking posters, visited cancer patients, showed the graphic warnings on Canadian cigarette packs, and lectured on how the anti-smoking campaign has reduced Canada’s lung-cancer rate. They face a struggle in China, a country where the tobacco industry provides 60 million jobs and 10% of national tax revenue.
“In China today, the economy comes first and everything else is secondary, including health care,” Dr. Jean Couture, a Quebec surgeon, said. “You wonder if anyone in the government is conscious of how great the smoking problem is. There’s no public education program. The Chinese anti-smoking association is very weak and has almost no money. Within 20 years, China could have the majority of all smoking deaths in the world.” Couture leads anti-smoking campaigns in 4 Chinese provinces, and has been involved with China’s smoking problem since 1990.
As Canadians distributed posters at a hospital, they saw a number of people smoking in the hospital. A hospital shop was openly selling cigarettes. While smoking rates have fallen sharply in Canada in the past two decades, the rate in China is still rising. The number of Chinese smokers is growing by 3 million a year, despite an estimated 1.3 million tobacco-related deaths annually.
Chinese cigarettes are cheap — as little as 30 cents a pack — and the health warnings are hidden in small print on the sides of the packages. Though cigarette advertising is technically illegal, tobacco companies are allowed to promote their corporate names. Children can easily buy cigarettes at Chinese shops, despite an official ban on sales to those under 18. Money, money, money.