A History of Tobacco in China
Updated: 2014-01-13 11:23
(chinadaily.com.cn)
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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.
An advertisement for Shanghai's Meili brand cigarettes in the 1920s.[Photo/tobaccochina.com] |
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