China promotes non-smoking day
NZPA-Reuter Peking China’s | 240 million smokers wijl be asked to observe a ho-tobacco day next month. Circulars on the health hazards of smoking were being sent throughout China and local officials would be, asked to; dissuade people from | lighting up on April 7, the official New China News Agency said. I/. I J The effort, in response to a World Health Organisation initiative, also calls on tobacco sellers to close their shops and) refrain from advertising I their wares. Hp | ' Smoking would be banhed in public iplaces
and doctors : and . nurses would, be asked i to set examples by not smoking. ! ! But the agency also said [that: more people were smoking in i j China arid they ! now numbered 240 [ million. The) [ top i leader, ! Deng Xiaoping, aged 83, is ' a [confirmed cigarette i smoker. i I | Cigarettes are a big [ contributor | [to Govern- I merit revenues. I' j [ Of the non-smoking day i one Peking [smoker. said, I “I Ido not think | it will work. People [in China like smoking too much, and when you want a favour from someone, the most 'common gift' is a pack of cigMttes.”! ; . |*
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