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Smoking nationIf there is a country where smoking develop into a state-run tradition then it is case of China, that are know as most smoking nations in the world. Smoking become related a part of Chinese national ritual. For example in Beijing at weeding, bride goes from table to table, offering cigarettes to her guests. This gifting of cigarettes turned out to be a very old practice for weddings. Tobacco usage is an important part of Chinese social life, and it is impolite to say no to a proposed cigarette. New generation of Chinese smokers are luckier then their parents, for whom lightening up of a tobacco product were an expensive pleasure. Now, younger adults have large assortments of cigarette brands of different tastes and prices. A student of one of Beijing university, Wei Peng is a 23-year-old has been chain smoking since he was 16.”When I first started to smoke, I did it out of curiosity. Then, it made me feel like I was growing up, and made me feel like a man. It gradually became a habit.” As international investigations demonstrated, China is the world's largest producer and consumer of tobacco products. In this state every year die millions as result of tobacco smoking. This reality had an opposite part. Namely tobacco companies play most important role for China. For example, state-owned cigarette companies like the giant Hongta Group, that is located in southwestern China's Yunnan province, offer job places for thousands of chinee. Hongta has numerous enterprises across China, and money that offer this business is used for highways, hotels, and a massive modern sports center in the provincial capital of Kunming. It is hard to act in such situation. Leaders of Communist Party affirmed that China cannot afford to stop smoking, because it can result destabilization of state economy. This affirmation was states in March by deputy chief of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. Still, state government already begins to initiate some steps in order to reduce tobacco smoking. From action that were done are approving of the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, that consist of prohibition of tobacco advertising, obliged more large warning on cigarette packs, and ban of tobacco smoking in many public places. WHO representative in China Dr. Henk Bekedam said: “That's very encouraging, but it's just like with all the laws. A law on its own is not enough. It's, at the end of the day, about changing behavior.” |
