China's anti-smoking movement was first recorded in 1639, when Ming Dynasty (AD 1368－1644) Emperor Chongzhen issued a national ban on tobacco and stipulated that tobacco addicts be executed. In 1637, Qing Dynasty (AD 1644–1911) Emperor Kangxi expanded the death penalty to those who possess tobacco.

This is the fully translated English version of of the Chinese game Lin Zexu - No Smoking for the NE. Lin Zexu was sent to Canton, the chief trading port of the East India Company, with instructions to negotiate an end to the importation of opium into China. The English merchants were uncooperative, so he seized their stores of opium. This led to immediate military action. Liu Zexu - No Smoking $45.00 - $55.00 In September 1838, during the Daoguang Emperor's reign, China experienced major problems with opium. The Emperor declared a ban on opium, and appointed Lin Zexu as the Imperial Commisioner. This is the fully translated English version of of the Chinese game Lin Zexu - No Smoking for the NES. In September 1838, during the Daoguang Emperor's reign, China experienced major problems with opium. The Emperor declared a ban on opium, and appointed Lin Zexu as the Imperial Commisioner. Commissioner Lin especially stressed the point: “I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by your country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood.

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In 1817, the British began to sell a narcotic drug, Indian opium, to China as a way to reduce the trade deficit and to make the Indian colony profitable. The Qing Administration originally tolerated opium importation because it created an indirect tax on Chinese subjects, while allowing the British to double tea exports from China to England. However, by 1820 the planting of tea in the Indian and African colonies, along with accelerated opium consumption, reversed the flow of silver, and the drug had poisoned thousands of Chinese civilians.

In 1839, the Daoguang Emperor appointed Lin Zexu Governor of Guangdong province to reduce and eliminate the opium trade. On his arrival at Guangzhou, Lin banned the sale of opium, demanded that all opium be surrendered to the Chinese authorities, and required that all foreign traders sign a 'no opium trade' bond. Overall 20,000 chests (each holding about 55 kilograms) were handed over and destroyed in a 23-day campaign beginning June 3, 1839.

Although tobacco was consumed in China as early as the 1500s, cigarettes didn't arrive until the late 1800s, according to the archives at the US's Duke University, immediately after the invention of the cigarette machine in 1881, James B. Duke (1865—1925) is reported to have leafed through a world atlas to survey the population of foreign countries. Coming to the figure 430,000,000, he exclaimed, 'That is where we are going to sell cigarettes.' The country was China, and in 1890 the Dukes exported the first cigarettes to the populous Asian nation.

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Advertisements featuring fashionable courtesans, or sing-song girls of Shanghai around the 1920s testified that the imported habit was trendy in what was then one of Asia's biggest cities.

In April 1935, the Kuomintang Party that then governed China issued a decree that aimed to eliminate drugs in two years and cigarettes in six years. Chiang Kai-shek, the party head, reformed the anti-drug commission under military departments to an independent section in charge of smoking elimination in the nation, and personnally took command.

Since the founding of People's Republic of China in 1949, the new Chinese government launched a vigorous crackdown on drugs and tobacco. 369,705 people involved in drug making, trafficking and selling were detected and punished. Farmlands were inspected to eliminate opium poppies.

Lin Zexuno Smoking Cigs

Mao's successor Deng Xiaoping, another chain smoker, loved expensive Panda cigarettes, and often proffered them to visiting dignitaries. Here he speaks with former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, while preparing to light up:

Lin Zexuno Smoking Cigarettes

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The Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region criticized the distortion of historical fact in teaching after a remote teaching video aroused netizens' anger.

According to Hong Kong-based Ta Kung Po, a parent surnamed Chen found on Monday that the general studies teacher of her child distorted the cause of the First Opium War during an online class for second-grade primary students by saying 'the British Empire invaded China to ban the opium.'

'British found that many Chinese smoking opium and thought it was a serious problem, so they launched a war to destroy opium,' said the teacher with Ho Lap Primary School (Sponsored by Sik Sik Yuen) in a video clip of the class.

By saying this, the teacher distorted the historical fact. In the 18th century, the British Empire smuggled banned opium to China for huge profits to reverse the trade deficit with China. In July 1839, Lin Zexu, official of the Qing government (1644-1911), publicly burned more than one million kilograms of opium in Humen, Guangdong Province. The British Empire then launched the First Opium War, and eventually, the Qing government was forced to cede Hong Kong to the British Empire.

When the video clip started circulating online, Hong Kong people were shocked, 'How can we explain this to our national hero Lin Zexu?' They condemned the teacher for misleading students and urged the school and the Education Bureau to punish the teacher.

On Tuesday night, Ho Lap Primary School admitted that some knowledge in the remote teaching video did not conform to the truth, and would reorganize the related teaching materials. It made an apology to the parent and student and promised to improve the current system of organizing teaching materials.

A spokesperson for the Educational Bureau told Ta Kung Po that the statement about the First Opium War in the video is not true and 'is unacceptable in teaching.' The Education Bureau has been following the case and asked the school to find out the facts.

The spokesman emphasized that schools should know teachers' teaching content and how they command the knowledge, and the bureau can't tolerate teachers teaching historical facts wrong. If the teacher is proved to lose professionalism and morality, the bureau will act in accordance with 'Education Ordinance.'