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Opium Smoking in China

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 45.

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Opium Smoking in China

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Observer in Shanghai states that the opium imported into China costs nearly as much as the nation receives for its teas, and more than it receives for silks. In addition to the foreign opium there is an immense quantity now cultivated in China itself. The vice of opium-smoking pervades all classes. Under such circumstances it is not with much hope that we read the following from a Chinese paper: "An imperial edict has been issued against opium-smoking, allowing two months for reform, after which severe penalties will be inflicted on all transgressors."