Smoke gets in your eyes

The political satire Gone With the Bullets has won the Dirty Ashtray Award for being the smokiest film of the past year. Xu Fan reports.

An antismoking lobby group says young Chinese are at risk of being encouraged to pick up the habit by actors puffing on cigarettes in films and on TV shows.

Of the 60 most popular films and TV series last year, more than 2,500 scenes depicted smoking, the nonprofit Chinese Association of Tobacco Control claims in a report.