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China: Govt should not smoke with public money 

Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2009-06-04

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China's corruption watchdog will clamp down on government officials who use public money to buy expensive cigarettes, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday, after one county last month urged its officials to smoke more than a million local cigarettes a year.

Smoking is tightly woven into the fabric of daily life in China, the world's largest tobacco market, where about 2 trillion cigarettes are sold every year. Offering cigarettes is an important part of official banquets, and expensive brands of cigarettes confer greater status.

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