History of the Smoking Ban
by Wang Hongbin
About This Novel
The serious harm caused by opium to Chinese society began during the Jiaqing and Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty. Britain had a monopoly on opium production in the East India Company, with the main purpose of exporting it, using China as an opium dumping market. The Qing government first implemented the smoking ban in the seventh year of Yongzheng (1729), and in the eighteenth year of Daoguang (1838) it appointed Lin Zexu as the imperial envoy to Guangdong to investigate the smoking ban, which finally led to the outbreak of the Opium War. After the Second Opium War, the Qing government was forced to agree to legalize the opium trade, further deepening the crisis in Chinese society. After the Revolution of 1911, Sun Yat-sen issued a smoking ban. The anti-smoking campaign in the early years of the Republic of China was the largest anti-opium campaign since the eradication of opium in Humen, with remarkable results. But after that, warlords fought for years, and tobacco and drugs became widespread again. Until the founding of New China, opium and tobacco poisoning were quickly eliminated in mainland China.
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