The tobacco companies are arguably the world's best at making something lethal appear appealing. The industry has long marketed its deadly products by associating tobacco use with beauty and freedom.

However, tobacco use is neither liberating nor glamorous. It is addictive and deadly.

Despite seeing the number of smokers in China drop by 0.45 percent from 2003 to 2010, the country's tobacco industry handed over taxes and profit of 513.11 billion yuan ($75.46 billion) to the national coffers in 2009, a year-on-year increase of 12.2 percent.