[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Tobacco smoking is popular and, at least for men, culturally acceptable in [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea"]North Korea. As of 2014, some 45% of men are reported to smoke daily; Smoking is a leading cause of death in North Korea, and as of 2010 mortality figures: some 34.3% of men and 22.3% of women are reported to die as a result of smoking, the highest smoking mortality figures in the world, and in total tobacco-caused illness kills 55,600 North Koreans annually. The current leader Kim Jong-un is often seen smoking in public, including in university classrooms, subway cars, and in the presence of his wife Ri Sol-ju, facts that "might make the life of the North Korean health educators more complicated."

North Korean's are so poor that most cigarette smokers roll their own, but it is against the law to use newspapers due to most newspapers have an image of Kim Jung-un in them and they are not permitted to dishonor his image