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| China-Japan-Koreas |
| No-Smoking Campaign in DPRK |
| 2004-06-01 |
| Good God! The "virtuous" are everywhere! The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has joined the world-wide trend towards the building of a new world without tobacco in the new century. Smoking has become one of the world’s serious problems as it endangers human existence, destructs the ecological environment of nature and gives great damage to the socio-economic activities. Look soon for the disaster movie. The DPRK government has fully encouraged the no-smoking campaign to prevent all the sufferings from smoking and to provide people with an independent and creative life. It has controlled the cultivation, production, import and sale of tobacco and smoking by law in the country. Therefore, any agency, enterprise and company can neither import cigarettes without the government permission nor those who toured other countries can bring cigarettes into the country. Has Massachusetts heard about this yet? Nah, they need the tax money. For the children. Cigarette import has been restricted by means of increasing duties. On second thought... The government has taken various practical measures such as encouraging shops and markets in the country to sharply increase the price of cigarettes and extending no-smoking places. Hygienic information activities have been conducted extensively to make all the people interested in the no-smoking campaign. Also included in the no-smoking campaign are propaganda through mass media, art propaganda squad’s activities and hygienic lectures. Just like here. But have they sued "Big Tobacco" yet? An increasing number of men have quitted smoking or refrained from smoking in public places, offices and families. Probably beats being shot. A function has taken place at the People’s Palace of Culture on Monday to mark the World No-tobacco Day. A photo show has been held and people have been informed of harmfulness of tobacco. "No-smoking" signs are seen in medical and educational institutions, gymnasiums and other places in the country. Cigarette sale is also prohibited. Their next program: "Eating causes obesity. So DON’T!" |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
#6  (pix Comcast)Bill the Cat(R) is an example of what someone looks like who has quit smoking cold turkey. Imagine millions of people who are forced into this situation, where many of them are starving, while Kimmie has his impoted Japanese Kobe Steaks, French Cognac, and Cuban cigars. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-06-01 7:38:56 PM |
| #5 Their next program: "Eating causes obesity. So DON’T!" Funny, I thought that was already official policy... |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-06-01 1:48:54 PM |
| #4 And chewing twig too. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-01 11:42:27 AM |
| #3 I'll bet chewing tobacco will stay popular tho. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-01 11:42:09 AM |
| #2 The things you learn... I had no idea tobacco was such a big crop in the Koreas. For some reason I had thought the area wasn't temperate enough for tobacco cultivation... This site claims that 1.6% of South Korea's arable land is tied up in growing it. That's a lot for a country that only uses a ninth of its arable land for other agricultural purposes. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-06-01 11:08:57 AM |
| #1 Totalitarians of a feather flock together? |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-06-01 11:01:21 AM |