China - Domestic tobacco industry

T/I 10:42:19 In Yunnan Province in southwestern China, farmers have worked the land for centuries. But what used to be subsistance farming - growing the food they and those around them needed to live - has in many cases been replaced by cash crops. Chief among them is tobacco. Many farmers are using as much as 75 percent of their land to plant it. SHOWS: YUNNAN PROVINCE + BEIJING, CHINA RECENT YUNNAN PROVINCE: WS of countryside; farmers in fields; farmer smoking from water pipe; SOT tobacco farmer (in Mandarin): "I farm for a living and most of my earnings come from tobacco farming"; Pan up to countryside; BEIJING: (interior of cigarette factory) bin of tobacco; cigarettes on production line; selling cigarettes at counter (using abacus to calculate price); paying for cigarettes; Cigarette brand names; man smoking on street; older couple smoking; SOT old man (in Mandarin): "In light of the government efforts to get people to quit, all I can say is I used to smoke two packs a day, now I just smoke one... I try to control myself"; Smoker in street; SOT smoker (in Mandarin): "It isn't difficult to quit. If you want to quit, just stop smoking.... I just don't want to quit"; VS No smoking signs; Marlboro man; 555 advertisement; billboards in countryside, cigarette people ad; YUNNAN PROVINCE: Farmer with kid in countryside. Runs 3.35 You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/538d077fb0089008bcc48961dcce924f Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork