China Toughens Tobacco Advertising Rules

China enforced sweeping new rules on Tuesday to restrict tobacco advertisements, in its latest step to rein in a widespread habit that has caused a massive health crisis. More than 300 million people have made cigarettes part of the social fabric in the world's biggest producer and consumer of tobacco, and another 740 million are exposed to second-hand smoke, state media have reported. Revisions to the national advertisement law, passed in April, ban tobacco advertisements in mass...

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