tobacco

www.farwestchina.com — I love running into old pieces of culture, like this 1994 Xinjiang Airlines inflight magazine. Inside was an ad for a type of Xinjiang "tobacco" that has since been banned by the government. Methinks the ad might be misleading.

www.npr.org — Some of this article is stuff we've all heard about or already know, but there are a few things which were news to me. One, the deputy director of the State Tobacco Monopoly is Li Keming; he's the brother of the man tipped to be China's next premier, Li Keqiang. Also, the article discusses farmers being forced into growing tobacco and what it means to them.

www.chinahush.com — After the Wenchuan earthquake last year, Sichuan disaster area has established a “Sichuan Tobacco Hope Elementary School”, not only the “China Tobacco” name and logo was clearly printed on the top of the school building, the stone monument in the center of the school writes “Determine to contribute to society, Tobacco helps you to be successful”.