A smoker walks past Chinese national flags in front of a restaurant in Beijing, China, May 11, 2015. China is set to raise the wholesale tax rate for cigarettes to 11% from 5%, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday, in a move to deter smokers in the world's biggest maker and consumer of tobacco. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Members of a music band smoke cigarettes on a bench as they take a break, in Kunming, Yunnan province, China, May 27, 2015. China is set to raise the wholesale tax rate for cigarettes to 11 percent from 5 percent, the Ministry of Finance said in early May, in a move to deter smokers in the world's biggest maker and consumer of tobacco. REUTERS/Wong Campion TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Girls stand next to a "No Smoking" sign at a park downtown Shanghai April 27, 2014. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (CHINA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Residents enjoy the sunshine before swimming at Houhai Lake after snow fall in central Beijing February 8, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT) 

Extinguished cigarettes are seen in an ashtray at the Shanghai Railway Station December 23, 2013. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) 

A visitor dressed as a red army soldier smokes as he poses for a picture in Jinggangshan, Jiangxi province September 20, 2012. Jinggangshan, is where former Chinese leader Mao Zedong's
career as a revolutionary began to take off. In 1927, Mao and several communist leaders fled with a few thousands to the hills of Jinggangshan, hounded and outnumbered by Nationalist forces. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) 

Policemen smoke after a blast outside Taiyanggong Thermal Power Plant owned by the Jing Neng group, in Beijing June 6, 2012. The blast ripped through the thermal power plant on Wednesday in Beijing, killing two women and injuring another, according to local authorities and witnesses. The accident took place at about 2 p.m. (0600 GMT) at a nitrogen workshop in the plant in northeast Beijing's Wangjing area, witnesses said. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA - Tags: DISASTER ENERGY) 

A man squats as he smokes a cigarette in front of his home in central Beijing June 1, 2012. China is the world's largest producer and consumer of tobacco with more than 300 million smokers, and revenue from the tobacco industry accounting for nearly one-tenth of China's tax revenue. Earlier this year, a book published by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation said smoking could kill about 1 billion people this century. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH) 

A cigarette stained with lipstick is seen left on the ground in Shanghai, March 22, 2012. Michael Bloomberg's charitable foundation will commit an additional $220 million over the next four years to fighting tobacco use globally, including funding for legal challenges against the tobacco industry by countries such as Uruguay.The New York City mayor was set to announce the new funding for Bloomberg Philanthropies on March 22, 2012 at the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Singapore. His charity will monitor the tobacco industry's strategies and offer legal support to counter its pushback against anti-smoking campaigns. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS HEALTH) 

A migrant worker smokes a cigarette as he carries a box towards a platform to board a train at the Beijing Railway station January 29, 2012. The world's largest human migration had reached its peak last week after hundreds of millions of people headed home for Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, the biggest of two "Golden Week" holidays. More than 3 billion trips were expected to be made during the travel rush, with a daily average of 5.88 million people on trains. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA - Tags: SOCIETY TRANSPORT) 

Striking taxi drivers gather near their parked taxis under a bridge in the suburbs of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province August 3, 2011. A strike by Chinese cab drivers in the eastern tourist city of Hangzhou stretched into a third day on Wednesday, in the latest unrest highlighting frustration among migrant workers struggling with rising costs and burdensome fees. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST TRANSPORT POLITICS) 

A child from the Yi ethnic minority smokes a cigarette at Dayingpan Village in Yuexi County, Sichuan province December 15, 2007. Children in the village have to take care of themselves as most of their parents are working in the fields. Dayingpan Village, known by locals in the surrounding area as "ghost village", used to be the place of exile for lepers, and is now home to around 80 families, including 105 residents still suffering from the disease, local media reported. Picture taken December 15, 2007. REUTERS/Joe Chan (CHINA) 

Migrant workers from China's Hebei province rest near a red wall beside the Tiananmen Square in Beijing on National Day,October 1, 2007. China celebrates the 58th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA) 

Cigarettes lie on flowers near a billboard featuring a portrait of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Shenzhen, China February 18, 2007. The huge billboard of Deng presides over an intersection in the heart of Shenzhen, part shrine, part tourist attraction and part ad for market reforms. Hundreds visit each day. A few bring flowers. Everyone poses for pictures. For those without cameras, 20 yuan ($2.58) buys two snapshots of yourself, printed and laminated on the spot -- one before the Deng billboard, and one facing the other way with Shenzhen's skyscrapers in the background. Deng died 10 years ago on Monday and while his ongoing reform era has been headlined by shrinking poverty and strong economic growth, rifts between rich and poor, the wealthy east and the remote west, have grown, and with them social unrest. REUTERS/Paul Yeung (CHINA) 

An ethnic Tibetan boy smokes a cigarette, which he had asked from the man next to him, at Sangke grassland in Xiahe, western China's Gansu province, August 13, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA) 

CHINA SMOKING/ - Reissue, headline reworded. Map showing tobacco laws worldwide. (SIN06)