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Schools ordered to buy local cigarettes

A COUNTY government in central China's Hubei Province has sparked a public outcry over a plan ordering government departments and schools to buy locally made cigarettes. The Wuhan-based ChuTian Metropolis Daily... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Mon, May 04 2009

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