China gets $4 billion in smokers’ taxes.
NZPA-Reuter Peking Smokers brought the Chinese Government almost ?4 billion in taxes last year — its second largest source of revenue after the oil industry, said the official “People’s Daily.” China has an estimated 250 million smokers, a quarter of the population, who annually consume 180 billion cigarettes. But the campaign has not been helped by the fact that many of China’s top leaders, including Mr Deng Xiaoping and the Communist Party chief, Mr Hu Yadbang, are regularly seen smoking on television. A
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