Casual efforts The difficulty for the ruling Communist Party when facing up to the significance of smoking in the world's most populous country is that, although it makes people ill over the long term, smoking yields somewhere between 7% and 11% of China's total tax revenue, according to Reuters
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They prefer to gather knowledge, experiences, or possessions and are hesitant to take risks
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