WE WANT TO MOVE TO THE PART OF CHINA WHERE THEY MAKE BEER

OFFICIALS in a county in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being fined, state media reports.

(Thanks to Allen at Division)

Comments

[Punkin]

Just another way the Chinese govt. is using to shrink the size of the population.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Exactly, Punkin.

I mean, WTFBBQ?!

[Allen at Division]

Can we be far behind?...

[frodolives]

Gong'an?

[nursecindy]

Thank goodness we are so against tobacco here in my state of North Carolina. If we weren't you would be able to buy a carton of cigarettes for $20.00. Oh wait a minute... we can. Never mind.

[NotSherly]

"The regulation will boost the local economy via the cigarette tax,"
In welcome related news, the number of successful iron lung and mortuary businesses in the area has already doubled.

[Jeff Meyerson]

cindy, cigs go for up to $10 A PACK in NYC now.

I remember when they were fifty cents.

*goes to warm up the geezer bus*

[nursecindy]

Jeff while you're warming up the geezer bus I'll be filling it with cartons of cigs from NC to take to NYC. We'll make a fortune!

[Meanie the Blue]

I guess the advertising "Come to Huanghelou country" wasn't doing the trick.

[ron]

Why complain?Others live in provinces where they manufacture cyanide.

[padraig]

If His Blogness is looking to move to a place where the residents are required to drink beer, it's called "Milwaukee."

(I did not say "Wisconsin" because there are areas of the Cheese State where you are NOT required to drink beer. In those areas you are required to drink brandy.)

[Kibby F5™]

Like at my "local", there's a difference between drinking the shots to get the free t-shirt -vs- buying the shots to get the free t-shirt....

Ones' required to buy, not necessarily consume.

Here it seems they're required to consume and not necessarily buy??? Where's the "so called" WHO?

*lines up behind The Dave for moving to a beer providence*

[Cheesewiz]

The dark side of free market totalitarianism.

[frodolives]

Kibby, the "SO-CALLED WHO????

[Margaritaville]

I think that is a great idea. The government of China should smoke their freaking brains out so that the people in China can get a new government soon.

[shellinoz]

OT--

Did anyone else notice the side story about the woman being impaled? The pic is a bit graphic, but the last line of the story is worth it.

end OT.

[insomniac]

A Huanghelou official was frightened:
His cigarette quota was heightened
"Forget about cancer,
I can't go to a dance for
My teeth can't ever be whitened."

[cowhand214]

Nursecindy, can you send some of those $20 cartons up here to the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts as well? Camels will do just fine, thanks.

The question that's nagging me is: 250,000 cigarettes? Spread over how many people?

[Kibby F5™]

A. 2

[NotSherly]

snork @ insom.

[trustf8]

'Be there, or be a chinaman looking at a ton of cigarettes.....' ?

That's not funny...

what?

....oh....

nevermind

[NotSherly]

Chinese officials aren't joking.
Their economy needs some provoking.
Staff 'risk being fined'
If they get too behind
On their newly raised quota of smoking.

[Not My Usual Alias]

I lived in Wuhan, another city in Hubei province. Breathing in smoke through a filter would be an improvement over the local choking on unfiltered air.

Wuhan's population is 9 million. I'm sure they would be willing to help out their neighbors.

[Not My Usual Alias]

The county has about 320,000 people, so the government is looking at creating a One Pack Policy.

[Clankazoid]

An ad with a panda smoking 40 cigarettes at once should boost sales.

[MartiniShark]

If Cindy is taking tobacco orders could you send me a price list on cigars please, dark-leaf preferred, Connecticut shade or darker?

[Loudmouth]

This from the Directorate of Tobacco Consumption.

[Katz P Ajamas]

"China has 350 million smokers, of whom a million die of smoking-related diseases every year." Them's pretty good odds compared to what our government has been telling us about our USA made cigarettes. Perhaps we should be importing these Chinese cigarettes for our smokers here in the USA.