These companies continue to spend millions of yuan on tobacco advertising to convince women and young girls that smoking is a sign of liberation and a way to keep slim. Similar campaigns were run in the US in the 1960s. We now know, though, that, instead of making them glamorous, smoking makes women sick.
Huntsman shares with Chinese readers the bleak tragedy of her sister Susan's death as a result of smoking.
After having smoked for 10 years, she was diagnosed with acute lung cancer and succumbed to the disease in just three weeks.
She was only 34 years old and should have been at the height of her life, chasing after her two beautiful young daughters. Instead, she left them motherless.
