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Learn Chinese Language and Culture ? designed just for you! In China, when someone offers you a cigarette, if you neither want to accept it nor to be impolite, what could you do? I have found an interesting website, Learn Chinese Language and Culture ? designed just for you!, which talks about this kind of stuff and also introduces some culture shock we might come across living in China.

The standards of what may be considered a ¡°non-smoking¡± section in a hotel, bar or restaurant in China may not be the same as what you¡¯re accustomed to. By western standards, Chinese people smoke heavily and it¡¯s considered common courtesy for one man to offer another a cigarette when they¡¯re having a conversation. If you do not smoke, you can politely tell them that you don¡¯t smoke, though it might be seen as very rude if you request someone not to smoke in front of you. People will typically not ask permission to smoke as they don¡¯t see it as an offense to others. This is changing as China is modernizing. Now, many young urban people are realizing that westerners often dislike cigarette smoke. Though traditionally women do not smoke, now some young women are picking up the habit of smoking while many young men are refusing to pick it up.

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