A favorite icon for Cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly clich to market tobacco products.
At the forefront.
Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their allies have fueled a tripling of the world\'s annual consumption of cigarettes.
The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade.
A favorite icon for Cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly clich to market tobacco products