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To: elmatador who wrote (71895)	12/29/2009 7:22:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 74559

Who do they blame for forcing them to smoke tobacco, which they do in vast amounts even though the air is already disgusting from other pollution? <"If you spoke to the average 20 or 30-something Chinese person they would say the British forced us to take opium. It is established as part of the historical story." > That shows how clueless is the average 20 or 30 year old Chinese person if we believe the writer. You can lead a Chinese [the average 20 or 30-something] to water but you can't make them think. It is not possible to force hordes of people to smoke either tobacco or opium, or drink booze for that matter. The British could force the landing of opium on the wharves and distribution to shops, but they couldn't force people to go and buy it. Opium was a common product around the world in the 19th century. Melbourne's library has shipping schedules for opium and other goods into Australia. There was a lot of the stuff. The harm from opium was vastly less than the present harm from tobacco, but they seem unworried about tobacco and are certainly not executing suppliers. Deng Xiaoping was a big smoker. en.wikipedia.org Laughable: <“Nobody has the right to speak ill of China’s judicial sovereignty,” said spokeswoman Jiang Yu. > Jiang obviously has little idea about freedom of speech and thinking. In fact, we do. And, in fact, China's boss thugs have plenty to say about the decisions of New Zealand and other countries. Jiang obviously thinks they rule the world and can tell other people what they can and can't say. While there are hordes of people held hostage in China [about 1.3 billion] that's only a small proportion of Earth's total 6 billion. Mqurice