As someone who struggles with a nicotine habit, I have a love-hate relationship with cigarettes. But you could, and probably someone already has, write a book or two on the social role of cigarettes in post-’49 China. Cigarettes were everywhere... ...full story at Virtual China
from Virtual China on Wed, Jun 18 2008
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