CHINA FEATURE
February 1st, 2003
BY EDWARD PETERSFOR a snapshot of the current state of the Chinese tobacco industry, casual observers need go no further than the massive adverts blanketing some of the main highways in Shanghai, which is generally considered to be the most go-ahead city in the People's Republic (PRC)."Ai Wo Zonghua" runs the clever slogan, which literally means "Love my Zonghua brand cigarettes", but it can also be translated as "Love my China".And China really does love its cigarettes. Each year Chinese smokers consume 1.7 trillion of them, making up 30 per cent of the world's ...
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