China National Tobacco is keen to encourage as many kids as possible to take up smoking and without a significant anti-smoking lobby there seems to be little to impede them. The craziest thing here is that China National Tobacco is a state owned monopoly; all of the costs from the health impacts from this organisation will fall to the Chinese Government in time to come.
From the Chinese Government’s perspective,
“…although smoking harms people’s health, restraining smoking threatens social stability and government income…”
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