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Chinese Workers Ordered to Smoke More

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted May 6, 2009 12:53 PM CDT

(Newser) – Seeking to stem the flow of cigarettes over the border and bolster the local tobacco industry, a Chinese county has ordered local officials to puff only local cigarettes, the Times of London reports. In March, Gongan county mandated that civil servants on its payroll smoke... Read full story »

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