No Way. Taiwanese Women Can't Be That Stupid

Can they?

Despite the tighter regulations, tobacco companies [in Taiwan] still market fruit-flavored cigarettes to young ladies to give the impression that smoking these cigarettes has the same health benefits as eating fruit , the anti-smoking group John Tung Foundation said.

"Many young ladies, perhaps because they are unable to consume enough servings of fruit, believe that by smoking peach [cigarettes], they are getting the same amount of nutrition as they would from a real peach,” said Lin Ching-li (林清麗), director of the foundation’s Tobacco Control Division. “This is completely wrong, but young ladies pass it on to each other and create this kind of misconception.”  [emphasis added]

I'm essentially left with the choice of believing young women in Taiwan are really, REALLY dumb, or that an anti-smoking NGO is playing fast and loose with the facts.  Think I prefer to go with #2, thank you very much.

Comments

[Passing By]

Hey, very humorous post. Nice informative catch. Some NGOs are kind of wacko, as they are worldwide.

[The Foreigner]

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I guess the thing about anti-smoking organizations is that probably most of their members are composed of people who have lost loved ones or medical professionals who've had to take care of former smokers. So maybe there's a whole "If I can save just one life by telling a fib, it's worth it" mentality going on.

But just to verify this, I'm gonna try to ask some youngish women I know here whether they think this is true.

[taiwan girl]

is it true ? how come i never heard of it ?