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Zhang Yue (张跃) of Luoyang is the kind of guy that we want around, all the time. Why? Because Zhang is known for plucking cigarettes out of people's mouths right as they are about to light up. The anti-smoking crusader has taken his show on the road to the tune of over 200 cities in China, and was recently spotted on Nanjing Lu, snubbing out eleven cigarettes in the space of half an hour. Normally, you don't do things like that -- especially to hard-core smokers -- but perhaps Zhang's altruistic motives, supplemented by his anti-smoking informational pamphlets, manage to convince where other methods fail. You can read reports about Zhang's exploits in Chengdu and Foshan as well (reports in Chinese). Thursday, May 31 is World No Tobacco Day.
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Does he then go to KFC and snatch Tower burgers out of people's mouths?
I am not a smoker, and I don't particularly like hanging out around people who are smoking, but isn't what this guy is doing kind of like, oh I don't know, stealing? I mean he is doing this where people are smoking legally right? I would applaud his efforts if he did it in a place where smoking was against the law (or when a worker lights up in my kitchen) but this just seems rude. Until China bans smoking in public places, why not go after people who are truly breaking rules -- like create a human shield to prevent cars from not yielding to pedestrians or stopping before making a right turn on a red light.
I'd like to see Lao Zhang become even more aggressive in his campaign to stamp out smoking, let's say, by snatching cigarettes from people's mouth and replacing them with a fast moving fist. What's more, in an effort to not discriminate, I trust he'd deliver a few healthy blows to our supposedly enlightened foreign population here in Shanghai.
On this quite serious of global issues, western smokers in particular are a truly a disappointing, nefarious species of people given what we know to be hard-core facts about smoking. While on average, they would criticize and lament over corporations that pollute the environment by spewing cancerous toxins into the air endangering lives, yet, they have absolutely little conscience in doing what on a micro level is essentially the same thing every time they light up.
I frequent a café with a reputation as a hangout for well-traveled, progressive, thoughtful people. However, a large chunk of them smoke like fiends with little care for the breathing space of others, let alone the incredible stink they give to the place. When it comes to heady conversation at this venue, and issues of global concern—be it the heinous nature of US foreign policy, the dire need for environmental ‘greening’ or supporting the f**** Dalai Lama—with each drag from their Marlboros, these people reveal themselves as hypocrites of the highest degree.
It’s with deep shame that people should choose smoking as a way of in this day and age. Still, I'm sure a few will be proudly lighting up as they get ready to flame this post.
"I frequent a café with a reputation as a hangout for well-traveled, progressive, thoughtful people. However, a large chunk of them smoke like fiends with little care for the breathing space of others, let alone the incredible stink they give to the place."
Maybe they are in fact just selfish, pretentious cvnts?
bravo for trying to do the right thing in making it a point to point ouut one of so many thigs that is wrong in china.... but i kinda think he is crazy though.