the tabacco lobby there (state owned, makes basically the same amount of money the chinese military spends) banned flavored vapes so the citizen take cigarettes instead
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
The Chinese aren’t ahead of the curb here, they are significantly behind. Flavored cigs got banned in most countries many years ago because they did too good a job. I expect the same thing will happen in China soon.
Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 5 hours ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Is this why some manwha/hua mc smoke?
Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 4 hours ago
about 40% of chinese people smoke so its definetly something where state & tabacco propaganda succeeded. About korea: i dont know, i only saw the documentary about the chinese mega company
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Except cigarettes are a state-run monopoly over there.
The main reason things are going so slowly is that they can’t bring themselves to stop making so much money.
The same institution that’s supposed to promote the facts about the health-risks of smoking is the one making stupid amounts of money making and selling it.
If they ever stop, it’ll be because they transition to other nicotine products, are shift to exporting the product to developing countries (which they already are).
Kirp123@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
One of the reasons they were banned was also because it made them more attractive to children and teenagers. That’s also one of the reasons a lot of places don’t allow fancy designs on cigarette packs and it forces them to show those gruesome pictures of throat cancer and stuff.
Trex202@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Exactly, that’s why vapes come in many flavours and colours