China orders officials to smoke

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

Officials in a county in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being fined, state media reported.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090504/od_af..._20090504060821

[Guest Pommey]

Officials in a county in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being fined, state media reported.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090504/od_af..._20090504060821

 

 

maybe they should take over Oregon too

[Zhou Zhou]

350 million smokers...1 million die each year...half the doctors smoke, "OIC"!

 

[Robert S.]

Well, if they had 630 officials smoking a pack a day they could do it. That would be a lot of officials for one county. Bob Dylan used to smoke 4 packs a day but that is the most I ever hear of anybody smoking. I hope they have got more than 157.5 officials.

Edited May 5, 2009 by Robert S. (see edit history)

[sweattrl1]

but to you can see what affect it had on Bob Dylan, ugly as hell, no joke but again Bob might say the same for me, just thinking out loud

[IllinoisDave]

Well, if they had 630 officials smoking a pack a day they could do it. That would be a lot of officials for one county. Bob Dylan used to smoke 4 packs a day but that is the most I ever hear of anybody smoking. I hope they have got more than 157.5 officials.

Bob Seger used to smoke 5.

[Guest ShaQuaNew]

Well, if they had 630 officials smoking a pack a day they could do it. That would be a lot of officials for one county. Bob Dylan used to smoke 4 packs a day but that is the most I ever hear of anybody smoking. I hope they have got more than 157.5 officials.

Bob Seger used to smoke 5.

Some of the best business deals were sealed while drinking and smoking. Just ask Don's cat!

 

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[knloregon]

Bob Dylan was always ugly.... no one listens to his music-----or lyrics for his looks...

[Guest ShaQuaNew]

Bob Dylan was always ugly.... no one listens to his music-----or lyrics for his looks...

 

 

Yeah, he took his ugly face and cigarettes all the way to the bank as the world sang his songs....

 

[Robert S.]

I transcribed a report one time on a guy from South Carolina who had started smoking when he was age 4, and many others on people in that region who started smoking before they were even 10 years old. At least they were smoking the good damn tobacco grown in that region. I feel sorry for all those officials that have to smoke those ciggies from where they are at.

[whome?]

Here is the same story from one of the Chinese papers (english version):

 

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2009-...ent_7747305.htm

 

Here is an update to the story:

 

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-05...ent_7750591.htm

 

Interesting that public opinion can change things in China ......

[knloregon]

In fairness to Xinhua, there are more social issues (like this) reported in an unvarnished way. This story would have been unthinkable 10 years ago, and the tobacco industry, and political interest are still huge in China, even growing. Yunnan province is probably the leading source, but its a huge crop nationwide.

 

Guessing the county officials responsible are going to be 'reassigned'

 

Also guessing they aren't gona like their new assignment.

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

Bob Dylan was always ugly.... no one listens to his music-----or lyrics for his looks...

 

 

Yeah, he took his ugly face and cigarettes all the way to the bank as the world sang his songs....

 

So did the Duke Family of North Carolina.

[whome?]

In fairness to Xinhua, there are more social issues (like this) reported in an unvarnished way. This story would have been unthinkable 10 years ago, and the tobacco industry, and political interest are still huge in China, even growing. Yunnan province is probably the leading source, but its a huge crop nationwide.

 

Guessing the county officials responsible are going to be 'reassigned'

 

Also guessing they aren't gona like their new assignment.

 

 

A good guess I would think ....

[Jeikun]

Well, if they had 630 officials smoking a pack a day they could do it. That would be a lot of officials for one county. Bob Dylan used to smoke 4 packs a day but that is the most I ever hear of anybody smoking. I hope they have got more than 157.5 officials.

Bob Seger used to smoke 5.

 

holy crap. If you chain smoked for 16 hours straight, you would have to smoke more than 6 cigarettes per hour to get that. I mean, I'm sure he didn't always get 8 hours of shut-eye, but he pretty much had to be drawing in smoke for every waking breath. His lungs must have looked like dried up rat turds.