Smoking in Yunnan
Cigarette is the magic key to make friends in Yunnan in a sec between man .
When 2 men meets no matter if they are friends or total strangers , the first thing they do is taking their pack of cigarette out and offer it to the others ,it is a way to greet each other instead of a Hello .also it is a way to say thank you to someone.there are only very few women smokes cigarette ,lots of older woman who are living in the remote area do smoke their own grown tobacco with a pipe .such groups are the Yi ,Wan ,Lisu .
Besides tourism Yunnan produce about 80%of cigarette in China .