County in China orders its officials to ... smoke!!!

A Chinese county has ordered officials to smoke nearly a quarter of a million packs of cigarettes every year in the hopes of raising tax revenues. 

Gong'an county told civil servants and teachers to smoke 230,000 packs of the locally-made Hubei brand each year. 

Those who do not smoke enough, or are caught puffing on brands from other provinces, or overseas, face being fined or even fired. More...

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