According to statistics, there are 3 million people who die from smoking every year in the world, and one person dies from smoking-related diseases every thirteen seconds. The medical profession has come to a conclusion: 80% of bronchitis, 90% of lung cancer, and 30% of other diseases are caused by smoking.
According to medicine, there are more than 25 diseases induced by tobacco, and many chronic diseases are caused by smoking. If you smoke about 20 cigarettes a day, the probability of death from oral cancer, lung cancer, and throat cancer is 14 times higher than that of non-smokers, and the probability of death from esophageal cancer is four times higher.
However, even if smokers all over the world know that "smoking is harmful to health", they are still willing to smoke. Those who are addicted to smoke will never leave their hands regardless of the occasion. For example, Deng Xiaoping is an "old smoker" "He is also considered "China's number one smoker."
From a lot of film and television materials, you can know how much Deng Xiaoping likes cigarettes. Even in diplomatic activities, he held cigarettes in one hand and held his legs up to talk with politicians from various countries. It is this unique diplomatic style that made him praised.
As early as the 1920s, Deng Xiaoping had learned to smoke. At that time, he was studying in France by himself, and his life was very lonely. There were not many people talking with him. Therefore, while working and studying, he would also use cigarettes to pass the time. .
Deng Xiaoping once said: "Cigarettes can calm my mood and inspire me." Therefore, he enjoys smoking while thinking. Sometimes he can smoke two packs of cigarettes a day.
However, such an old smoker with decades of history started to quit smoking in 1989. Smokers know that once a smoker becomes addicted, it is very painful to endure not to smoke, let alone Deng Xiaoping, who has a history of smoking for more than 60 years?
However, he used many methods. After months of persistence, he successfully quit smoking, but someone asked, why did Deng Xiaoping quit smoking?
Tobacco is an unremarkable wild plant. Indians chew the tobacco leaves in their mouths or make them into cigarettes and light them. Until the great voyage era, tobacco was brought to all parts of the world by Europeans, and tobacco has been popular for hundreds of years.
Tobacco entered our country during the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, because it was spread from Luzon in the Philippines to China.Therefore, it is also called "Luzon Smoke", and it spreads in Fujian and Guangdong, and gradually spread to the whole country.
At that time, material life was relatively scarce. Tobacco brought people a lot of spiritual enjoyment, and it was often associated with tea, which could help people concentrate and improve work efficiency.
During the revolutionary years, in the face of the day and night attacks of the enemy, leaders were seriously inadequate to rest. They used their brains too much. Therefore, cigarettes became the best choice for refreshing and refreshing. Chairman Mao liked to smoke "Hundreds of Smoke", Luo Ronghuan Also an old smoker.
During the Long March, it was not easy to smoke because of the relatively simple conditions. In order to relieve the addiction of smoking, Deng Xiaoping picked the leaves off, rolled them up with waste paper, and enjoyed them slowly after lighting. During the Anti-Japanese War, if the cigarettes in the revolutionary zone were out of stock, he would smoke those dry cigarettes that were more choking and wrap them in paper. The taste was not very good, but it would still relieve the addiction.
With the increase of age, Deng Xiaoping's addiction to cigarettes has become much larger. When he talked with other leaders, he still did not forget to smoke, and he also talked about smoking-related topics.
After Nixon's visit to China in 1972, the closed relationship between China and the United States for more than 20 years finally broke the ice, and the exchanges between the two countries have become more intensive. Although Nixon was quickly impeached due to the "Watergate Incident" and Sino-US relations have not developed further, personnel from the two countries still maintain exchanges.
Whenever the United States sends someone to visit, Deng Xiaoping will meet and talk with him when he is free, and he will explain future world development trends and his views on Sino-US relations. At this time, cigarettes become his humorous opening remarks with foreign guests.
In the summer of 1974, US Congressman Jackson visited our country. Deng Xiaoping and him received him. When the foreign guests were seated, he took the cigarette case on the coffee table and said: "I like to smoke. Your reporters often use this. As a subject matter, if I don’t smoke today, wouldn’t I be sorry?”
All the people at the meeting laughed and the atmosphere of diplomacy became more relaxed.
Immediately, Deng Xiaoping took out Panda brand cigarettes and asked one by one, "Does any of you smoke?" But Jackson and his entourage shook their heads and refused.
Deng Xiaoping joked: "You don't smoke,So maybe the Minister of Finance will not be happy? "Jackson said quickly: "Our Ministry of Health has declared that it will be banned!" ", but then he changed the subject and said: "Our Ministry of Finance encourages the sale of cigarettes. The two departments have been fighting, but the Ministry of Finance always has a slight edge.
At that time, there were relatively high voices in the American society about "banning", propagating the harmfulness of smoking, and suggested the establishment of a "No Tobacco Day", and the third Thursday of November was designated as a "No Tobacco Day." Propaganda, persuading smokers not to smoke that day, and asking the store to suspend the sale of cigarettes,
Therefore, a scene where the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Department of Health "fight" together. Deng Xiaoping laughed and said: "These two departments have been making trouble like this. If we continue, it will be difficult to solve the problem 100 years later.
One day this winter, US Congressman Mansfield visited China. He himself was an "old smoker". After meeting with Comrade Xiaoping, he took out his pipe and said, "If you don't mind, I smoke now!
Comrade Deng Xiaoping joked: "There are other smokers like me, please.
While smoking, Mansfield complained: "Hey, our Ministry of Health does not allow cigarettes to be smoked. It's really difficult. I can only learn from Stalin and smoke a pipe."
Deng Gong ridiculed: "The stricter the smoking ban, the more popular the cigarette will be. There is no way!
In 1979, Deng Xiaoping came to the United States for a visit. When he arrived in the conference room, he was addicted to cigarettes, so he asked US President Carter: "Did your Congress introduce a prohibition on smoking during the talks?"
Carter heard Deng's words outside the voice, he smiled and said: "As long as I'm still in office and the president, I won't allow such a law to appear." After all, my hometown is a tobacco-growing area, and my father is also a professional tobacco farmer, so I encourage people to smoke so that the Ministry of Finance can also generate income.
After Deng Xiaoping listened, he took out the cigarette with confidence and boldly lit the cigarette in person and continued to talk while smoking.
After this meeting, Carter praised Comrade Xiaoping for being honest Humorous, cheerful, and said: "I believe that the same is true for you Communists.
In August 1980, Deng Xiaoping came to the United States again for a visit and exchanged views with George, the vice presidential candidate. When discussing Xiaoping’s wife Zhuo Lin, George expressed his blessings.
Deng Xiaoping said humorously: " Thank you for your greetings, but her body is not as good as mine. "George was very curious and asked: "Is it because she smokes as often as you, so she is not in good health?"
Deng Xiaoping replied: "No, no, because she doesn't smoke, so she is not in good health. "After listening, everyone laughed kindly.
However, after 1985, Xiaoping's body deteriorated, coupled with more fatigue at work, he also suffered a lot of physical pain, but he still Unwilling to quit smoking.
Once, when he had a meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister Long Yi, he asked: "Is smoking really harmful to health?" I'm afraid not?
Long Yi shook his head and said: "It is not too difficult to quit smoking. Quitting smoking will not have so many worries.
After listening, Xiaoping smiled and said: "There is a scholar in our country who pointed out the disadvantages of smoking, but he also said that smoking is good. Different people have different opinions, right?
In September 1986, the Sixth Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee of the Party came to an end. After the meeting, Deng Xiaoping, Li Xiannian, and Chen Yun gathered together again in their busy schedule.
They are not young anymore, and they are also considering the replacement of the old and the new in the leadership group, otherwise the political situation will be difficult to make a stable transition in the future, and the country’s development will be affected.
On October 30th, Chen Yun invited the two of them to come as guests. To discuss the problem, they first asked about the cold and asked warmth, chatted about the recent living conditions and physical conditions, and then drove the other personnel out and embarked on a meaningful spy trip.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Shangzhi who was on the scene recalled: "At that time, when I got to the duty room, the electric bell rang, and I turned back to the office and saw Chairman Li got up and walked towards the door.
When they arrived in the room, the three old people said together: ‘Get the cigarette, get the cigarette quickly. In this way, I quickly talked to Zhang Baozhong and asked for a pack of cigarettes... more than 80 minutes later,Their conversation ended. Only Chairman Li was left in the room. I went to the room to clean up and found that there were six cigarette butts in the ashtray.
Among these great men, only Deng Gong smokes, so it seems that he smoked six cigarettes in an hour and a half.
Due to smoking problems, the doctor also advised Deng Gong to reduce smoking or quit smoking. However, at that time, Mr. Chen and Mr. Li asked to get cigarettes quickly. It can be seen that this meeting is more critical, and Deng’s smoking can be reduced. Pressure can also make thinking active. But no one knows what they say.
Since the 1980s, many countries in the world have set up a no-tobacco day, which was announced in the 39th World Health Assembly held in 1987. One decision: to set April 7, 1988 as World No Tobacco Day, and hope that all countries will actively promote the views of smoking health, encourage people to consciously quit smoking, and at least do not smoke or sell cigarettes on No Tobacco Day.
this The resolution has won the support of people from many countries around the world, and the "smoking campaign" has also been introduced to China. The Chinese side has also actively promoted to point out the dangers of smoking, call for the democratic cessation of smoking, and hope that tobacco producers and sellers will join the anti-smoking trend. In.
And on the second day of the first World No Tobacco Day, which is April 8, 1988, the 7th People’s Congress is being held in the Great Hall of the People.
To elect the president, vice-chairman and other leaders, and Comrade Xiaoping also invested his solemn vote. After returning to the rostrum, he silently waited for the result.
Because of feeling bored and smoking habit for many years After letting him empty, he habitually took a cigarette out of his bag and lit it subconsciously.
However, there was a rather embarrassing phenomenon at the venue. Li Shangzhi interviewed on the spot at that time. The memory said:
"I was on the south side of the rostrum, and I could see the situation on the stage at a glance. At that time, I found that a piece of paper was handed over from the stage one by one, and it was handed to Comrade Xiaoping all the time. At that time, after reading the note, he was taken aback for a moment, then burst into laughter, and extinguished the cigarette he had just smoked halfway in his hand.
Afterwards, Li Shangzhi learned that the person who passed the note was Kuang Jianlian, a female representative from Guangdong.She thinks that yesterday happened to be World No Tobacco Day, and today Comrade Xiaoping is smoking in public on stage, which is not very appropriate.
Therefore, she immediately took out a piece of paper and wrote on it: "Comrade Xiaoping, please do not smoke in public on the podium!"
After Comrade Xiaoping met, he immediately accepted the comrade’s criticism and immediately gave him a cigarette. Extinguished.
The person who wrote the note to Deng Xiaoping was the famous Cantonese opera artist Kuang Jianlian. She was 64 years old that year. She also had a name "Red Line Girl". As the main representative of the Cantonese opera genre, she won the first "China The Drama Lifetime Achievement Award" created a very influential "Red School" singing method.
Red Line Girl is very talented in art. Her maternal grandfather is a Cantonese opera martial artist, and her uncle and aunt are also very good Cantonese opera actors. She has been influenced by her since she was a child and embarked on the road of opera.
However, in that era, learning opera was not popular, and the status of actor was relatively low. Although her mother supported her to learn drama to support herself, her father was afraid that she would learn it badly. With her repeated assurances, she was allowed to come to her aunt to learn opera.
Kuang Jianlian has a relatively broad road to opera, which can adapt to different performance styles and types. On the basis of traditional opera, he draws on the artistic characteristics of other genres, thus creating his own unique "red tone" singing method.
In 1955, she was invited by Premier Zhou to visit Tiananmen Square to observe the ceremony. This visit to Beijing changed her whole life, and then she moved to the mainland to live and actively promote the art of Cantonese opera. Because of his progressive ideological performance and profound influence among the people, he was elected as a representative of the National People's Congress in 1988 and participated in the Seventh National People's Congress.
From this point of view, Deng Xiaoping is a very democratic, open and free public servant. According to Li Shangzhi’s recollection: “At that time, when the paper slips were passed up one by one, the atmosphere on the scene became tense, and countless eyes were staring at the paper slips.”
After all, everyone knew that Deng Gong’s addiction to cigarettes began during the revolutionary period. While everyone was still squeezing sweat for Kuang Jianlian, he laughed and put out the smoke.
Afterwards, Li Shangzhi wrote the matter into "Before and After Voting". This report attracted great attention once it was published.It spread to foreign countries, and everyone praised the leader for his "magnanimity."
is also the note that made Comrade Xiaoping reduce the frequency of smoking in public places and have the idea of quitting smoking. At that time, the ashtray of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress disappeared for a long time.
On April 16th of the same year, Deng Gong received Mrs. Aquino, the President of the Philippines, who was originally from Fujian in the Fujian Assembly Hall.
After the two introduced each other, Deng Xiaoping became addicted to cigarettes again, and could not help taking out the cigarette. He asked: "Do you mind if I smoke?"
Mrs. Aquino said: "I'm sorry, I can't. Give the answer, after all, I am not the host here. But at the Philippine cabinet meeting, no one is allowed to smoke."
After Deng Xiaoping listened, he put the cigarette in his pocket and joked:
"In At the 7th National People’s Congress, I violated a rule in public. At that time, I didn’t think so much. I immediately took out a cigarette and just smoked halfway. As a result, a representative handed out a note and criticized me for smoking in public. It’s not good. I can only accept criticism. There is no way.”
At the end of 1988, because Comrade Xiaoping’s health was not very good, the doctor repeatedly reminded Deng Gong that he should quit smoking and consider his health. At that time Xiaoping was eighty-four years old, and the harm to the body of smoking gradually became apparent. His youngest daughter, Deng Rong, imposed stricter restrictions on him and asked her to smoke less.
Deng Xiaoping knew that smoking is not good. He once said: "For someone like me who has no other bad habits and is already an elder-aged person, why bother to quit smoking? Even if smoking reduces life expectancy, he can only recognize it.
In 1989, Deng Xiaoping announced his resignation and left politics. He was determined to quit smoking, but for a very addicted person, quitting smoking is a very difficult task. Every time a cigarette addiction broke out, he would be particularly uncomfortable. In order to be able to persist, he had to eat fish skin or peanuts to divert his attention.
However, the "smoke" that has been with him for most of his life has become a label on Comrade Xiaoping and a sign of his health.
In the late 1980s, Sino-Soviet relations began to return to normal. In February 1989, Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze visited China.He also took the lead in the talks with Qian Qichen.
On February 4, Comrade Xiaoping met Qian Qichen and listened to his report on his work. However, after talking for a while, he habitually touched the coffee table with his hand, but he did not touch the cigarettes. There were only tea cups and tea leaves on the coffee table.
The little daughter Deng Rong next to him pulled her face down and said, "Dad, didn't you say that you want to quit smoking, why..."
After hearing this, Comrade Xiaoping was taken aback, then laughed out and said to others "Look at me. I am too old to be free, and I have to be controlled by others."
After a while, Comrade Xiaoping said: "You don’t need to smoke, but you have to show it, those foreign reporters. I have been writing a report about my smoking before, but now I don’t smoke anymore, and people think I’m not in good health!”
Although he said that, Deng Rong did not do so. One day, Comrade Xiaoping met Shevardnadze at the Hongqiao Hotel in Shanghai and found that there were no cigarettes on the coffee table on the right. He suddenly smiled bitterly and said aggrieved: "Why forgot to put cigarettes on the coffee table?"
Comrade Xiaoping said: "End the past and look to the future!" He pointed out that the past history of China and the Soviet Union has passed, and we must look to the future.
In the middle of the year, Gorbachev visited China. On May 15, accompanied by his youngest daughter Deng Rong, Deng Xiaoping came to the East Hall of the Great Hall of the People to wait for the arrival of foreign guests.
However, there is still nothing on the coffee table. It can be seen that her daughter is very strict with her "quit smoking" issue, but Xiaoping did not say anything. After all, her daughter is for his own good.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Gorbachev arrived at the meeting. Duke Deng talked with him for more than two hours. This meeting officially ended the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations, and the relationship between the two countries was "in the dark."
In 1986 with Li Xiannian and Chen Yun secretly, he smoked six cigarettes in 90 minutes, but did not smoke a cigarette for two hours during this meeting, and Comrade Xiaoping did not show any anxiety. This shows how strong this old man's self-control is.
In fact, Comrade Xiaoping loves to smoke is understood by all leaders who have intersections, and they will not mind. I remember that in October 1986, when Deng Gong met with Elizabeth II at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, during a five-hour exchange,Comrade Xiaoping did not smoke a cigarette. He did not quit smoking at the time.
In order to show respect for the Queen of England and prevent her from smoking second-hand smoke, Deng Gong has always endured the addiction to not smoke, which is enough to show his strong self-control. Before long, Queen Elizabeth II wrote: "I hope I don’t smoke for a few hours, and it doesn’t make you too uncomfortable. Actually, I don’t mind smoking too much, but thank you for your kindness!"
Under the supervision of his daughter Deng Rong, Deng Xiaoping successfully quit smoking. Regarding the issue of smoking cessation, Deng Rong said: "What can I do? My father is in his eighties and his health is the first priority. Any daughter will treat him like that.
It was Deng Rong’s urging. Comrade Xiaoping’s old age was very regular. He got up every day to read, go for a walk, and play cards. There was no more cigarettes in his life.
The three "Panda" cigarettes that Comrade Xiaoping did not smoke during his lifetime have been displayed in the museum of his former residence and have been preserved to this day.
Of course, the great Chairman Mao also loves to smoke. He and Stalin, Churchill, and Deng Xiaoping were called "the 4 great addicts of the 20th century."
Chairman Mao smoked from 18 years old until he was 81 years old. He has been a smoker for 63 years. He is a big addiction to cigarettes. He often does not leave his cigarettes. Especially when thinking about problems, he smokes cigarettes one after another. I have to smoke a few packs of cigarettes a day.
In the Jinggangshan period, he often worked day and night, and rarely had his own rest time. He smoked for better refreshment, and the comrades around him also looked for cigarettes for him.
Of course, Chairman Mao smokes "Baijia Cigarettes", he smokes all cigarettes, whether it is local tobacco or cigarettes, "no one refuses to come". He also smoked cigarettes replaced with leaves during the Long March.
During the liberation period, when commanding the 3 battles, due to the fierce confrontation between the Chinese and Communist armies, in order to ensure that there was no mistake in the decision-making, the chairman was very nervous and had to rely on cigarettes to refresh his mind every day.
However, long-term smoking has also affected Chairman Mao's body a lot, especially his cardiopulmonary function damage. He often advises others: "Don't learn from me smoking. There is nicotine in the cigarette, which is harmful! "
After Stalin's death, Marshal Voroshilov of the Soviet Union visited our country,Given that the chairman was addicted to smoking, he admonished: "Soviet experts agreed that if Stalin quit smoking early, he would not die so early."
Under his persuasion, the chairman decided to quit smoking, but it was not easy. 10 months later He smoked again. It was not until 1974, after repeated warnings from doctors and people around him, that Chairman Mao really quit smoking.
It was during those hard revolutionary years that the older generation of leaders worked hard for the revolution and often stayed up all night, so they smoked and concentrated. But today, we don't have so much pressure and can completely refuse cigarettes. What do you think?
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