Up In Smoke

China is a country of smokers.

China is also a country of counterfeiters. So this amazing article from Slate should come as no surprise. The only thing wrong with it, from my perspective, is that I didn't write it.

Go to any bar or restaurant in Shanghai and outside you'll find vendors hawking cigarettes, inside they'll probably sell them to you from behind the bar, and it's pretty much legal to smoke said cigarettes anywhere you want.

In my office, for instance, there's a clique of about five or seven smokers who enjoy their cigarettes everywhere from the elevator bay to the bathroom.

There are, in fact, ash trays in the stalls.