Comments on: Up in smoke: the role of tobacco in Chinese culture http://www.thewuway.net/archives/88 Writers who really know China Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:27:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Eric Wiley http://www.thewuway.net/archives/88#comment-6740 Eric Wiley Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:30:33 +0000 http://www.thewuway.net/archives/88#comment-6740 I used to bartend at a high-end lounge in Chicago. Our regular clients lived in the high rises along the north side of the miracle mile. One of them was a man named Anthony. He was working on becoming the first American cigarette company to have its cigarettes manufactured in China. He thought Marlboro Reds were delicious. That's my comment. :) I used to bartend at a high-end lounge in Chicago. Our regular clients lived in the high rises along the north side of the miracle mile. One of them was a man named Anthony. He was working on becoming the first American cigarette company to have its cigarettes manufactured in China. He thought Marlboro Reds were delicious.

That’s my comment. :)

]]> By: Tiffany Weiland http://www.thewuway.net/archives/88#comment-6573 Tiffany Weiland Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:45:16 +0000 http://www.thewuway.net/archives/88#comment-6573 Interesting observation!! I think Chinese women are groomed to defend for their husbands, right or wrong, I witnessed my mother protecting my father for the same reason, she was a nurse, she knew the danger of smoking and 2nd hand smoke...yet, it was my dad's social position she tried to defend when someone asked my father to put out a cigarette. Often time, women's status are tied to their husbands and how their "tie" are displayed in public. Interesting observation!! I think Chinese women are groomed to defend for their husbands, right or wrong, I witnessed my mother protecting my father for the same reason, she was a nurse, she knew the danger of smoking and 2nd hand smoke…yet, it was my dad’s social position she tried to defend when someone asked my father to put out a cigarette. Often time, women’s status are tied to their husbands and how their “tie” are displayed in public.

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