The Chinese Government Forces Citizens to Smoke Cigarettes

Do you like smoking cigarettes?  Do you like smoking a lot of cigarettes?  You f*cking better, if you live in China’s Hubei province.  An edict was just issued mandating that residents scorch through 230,000 packs of local-brand cigs, in order to boost the economy.

Even local schools have been issued with a smoking quota for teachers, while one village was ordered to purchase 400 cartons of cigarettes a year for its officials, according to the local government’s website.

And, hey, if the kids get hooked, bonus!  You have to laugh at how openly the Chinese government pisses on the face of civil liberties.  The value of human life is definitely measured in profit numbers.  A cigarette factory?  Probably worth about a hundred thou lives, not a big deal. 

China has 350 million smokers, which is more people than America has, period.  About 1 million die from smoking-related bummers each year.

Local authorities in Gong’an county are taking the cigarette quota seriously and have established a “special taskforce” to enforce it.

According to a local newspaper account, a teacher from a village middle school said officials burst unannounced into the school at around 3pm one afternoon and started sifting through the ashtray and bins in the staff-room.

If you think about it, between this and the fact that a Chinese Hello Kitty factory probably blasts more toxic gas into the atmosphere than an American John Deere factory, China is pretty much the disease-soaked rotten lung of the world.

Source: The Telegraph.