The Chinese citizens are smoked 10 times more by cigarettes on profit

District government Gong'an, in a province Hubei in China, has caused global dispute when it has entered to "a quota of cigarettes" About civil servants, in aspiration to increase volume of receipts in local economic recession.

The Chinese law allows to raise a district justice taxes to sale of cigarettes, only if they are made in edge. Gong'an district usually raises incomes least cigarettes any of district in region, however, partly because the next provinces Hunan does one of the highest quality of cigarettes in China.

Within the limits of efforts on increase of incomes, the district has been passed the law of orders for civil servants, only a smoke of cigarette Gong'an district, and threaten to punish them if they do not correspond certain quotas. County it was ordered employees of a smoke in total 230000 Hubei marks of cigarettes, for a full expenditure almost 4 million yuans ($590000). Within the limits of a new rule, and "special target group" has been created and accused bodies.

That has drawn attention of world community mass media when the local newspaper has informed that the teacher of high school was be summary punishment for smoking incorrectly mark of cigarettes is imposed. The teacher has informed that officials of district has entered into school without the prevention one day, and have begun sorting stubs in a room on duty.

When three "has not been found compatible" stubs, the district threatens the penalty. After negotiations with school, a public censure, instead of has been published.

When this history has broken, local and global the press at once criticised rules for waste of public funds and encouragement of unhealthy practice.

Last years the central Chinese government has started realisation of the wide program against smoking of initiatives. China is the house for 350 million smokers 1 million from which die of illnesses, the reasons connected every year.

Having faced criticism growth, Gong'an the authorities have temporarily suspended a rule, said that it has broken rules about notice delivery.

"This question is at a consideration stage", the county is told in the statement.

There are no public health services problems have been named as the reason for a turn, but officials, to those I do not say that they do not intend encouragement non-smoking to start to smoke.