Stub it out, Kim tells Koreans

BBC ^ | Friday, 9 January, 2004, 12:16 GMT | none credited

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Stub it out, Kim tells Koreans

"The harm of cigarettes"- TV slogan

North Korea has launched a nationwide anti-smoking campaign after its leader Kim Jong-il reportedly quit the habit and called on his people to follow suit.

Reports in the South Korean media said Kim recently singled out smokers as one of the "three main fools of the 21st century", along with those who are ignorant about computers and music.

North Korean television has carried slogans and programmes telling people how harmful cigarette smoking can be to their health.

"Let's quit smoking and contribute in good health to the building of a powerful nation," Choe Ong-ju, the North's chief public hygiene inspector, urged viewers.

"Let's quit! Smoking endangers our health!"

South Korean TV quoted experts on the North as saying that although there are no accurate statistics, an estimated 40 per cent of the North's 22 million people smoke cigarettes, one of the highest rates in the world.

Unconfirmed reports have circulated in the Japanese press that Kim suffered a prolonged bout of ill health in late 2003. The North Korean media gave no coverage to his activities for several weeks between October and December.

BBC Monitoring, based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.

[StriperSniper]

Only a totalitarian government would.......nevermind.

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[Eris]

Shows you the common streak running through all anti-smoking fascists.

[tomakaze]

Well, I guess our own anti-smoking zealots are in good company then.

[StriperSniper]

Ping!

[Paleo Conservative]

I think North Koreans would be more likely to die of starvation than the effects of tobacco.

[LibWhacker]

Great Leader says cigarettes can kill you. 'Course, not as prolifically as Great Leader himself.

[cardinal4]

If they dont have any food, how do they get cigarettes? For that matter, where do they see TV? 90% of the people there are dirt poor..

[wizardoz]

Well, maybe he'll make the trains run on time too. Two more reasons for leftists to love fascists.

[JoeSchem]

Reports in the South Korean media said Kim recently singled out smokers as one of the "three main fools of the 21st century"

Including people who voted for Bush and got shafted with amnesty for illegals.

[camas]

no smoking!!! could be the straw that broke the camels back i hope

[observer5]

"Reports in the South Korean media said Kim recently singled out smokers as one of the "three main fools of the 21st century"

Is Kim calling himself one of the main fools of the 21st century?

[Future Snake Eater]

"Awesome Super Sticks Do Bad Kill! You Who Illogic Are Uses Sticks! Join Me or Die! Could You Do Any Else? "

[Drango]

Even the dumbest people on earth (North Korean Communist) recognize than smoking is bad for you.

[BCrago66]

Maybe the 2 totalitarians Kim and Nurse Bloomberg should get together and do some kind of roadshow or dinner theater.

[SheLion]

Thanks for the ping!!!

[Gabz]

The antis don't like being compared to Hitler - fine....look who they can be compared to now!!!!

[Madame Dufarge]

Wow, more of the usual suspects chiming in.

I detect a pattern.

[Gabz]

I detect a pattern.

me too!!!!!!

And it's not a pattern I would choose.

[Great Dane]

Shows you the common streak running through all anti-smoking fascists.

They are everywhere.