Smoking

In July 2009 there were approximately 307,000,000 people in the United States. China had about 1,324,000,000 people. I've read that there are over 360,000,000 smokers in China. That's more people than in the entire United States! I certainly witnessed quite a bit of smoking in China. Someone was smoking in nearly every restaurant we ate in. Sometimes there were a lot of smokers, making for a less than enjoyable eating experience. On top of that, I had a cold almost the entire time I was in China and Taiwan.