China National Tobacco Corp. has funded schools in China, and then named them after cigarette brands. That has raised hackles in the country, where one out of three cigarettes in
the world is smoked, and where one million people die per year because of tobacco-related diseases. More than 100 schools across China are sponsored by the tobacco industry, per Wu Yiqun, deputy
director of the Think Tank Research Center for Health Development
Read the whole story at Advertising Age »