China's smokers

Parents visit their sick child in a hospital in the rural village of Chao Jiang in southwest China's Yunnan province February 28, 2007.
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A sick boy, who is receiving medical treatment, is comforted by his mother and grandmother as a woman smokes in a room inside a local hospital in a rural village some 50km (31 miles) north of Poyang, Jiangxi province March 10, 2008.
REUTERS/Nir Elias


A window cleaner passes a lighter to his colleague while rappelling from a new building in Tianjin March 23, 2007.
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Female inmates smoke at a compulsory drug rehabilitation centre in Changzhi, north China's Shanxi province June 25, 2007.
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An ethnic Tibetan boy smokes a cigarette, which he had asked from the man next to him, at Sangke grassland in Xiahe, western China's Gansu province, August 13, 2006.
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People smoke in front of an electronic board at a stock exchange in Shanghai January 22, 2008.
REUTERS/Aly Song