This Day, That Year

Item from Aug 13, 1998, in China Daily: Coast guards from East China's Zhejiang Frontier Corps of Armed Police watch over 1,850 boxes of smuggled "555" and other seized name-brand cigarettes worth 5.3 million yuan ... Responding to a recent dispute, authorities reaffirmed that tobacco advertising must abide by the relevant regulations of the Advertisement Law ...

Cigarette and tobacco ads are only banned from newspapers, television and certain public places in China such as airports, waiting rooms, on highrises and in cinemas, according to the Advertisement Law.

The newly revised Advertisement Law will take effect on Sept 1, banning tobacco advertisements in all public venues and mass media.