[muawiyah]

The current level of opium addiction in China is supposed to be substantially below the 15% known in the mid 1800s.

You are already supposed to know that.

It' sone of the reasons many of us ask guys like you why it is you seem so intent on having us ratchet up the WOD to the Chinese level because that's exactly what we are going to do if our present mamby-pamby methods are having no effect.

[mugs99]

The current level of opium addiction in China is supposed to be substantially below the 15% known in the mid 1800s.

Interesting. Have you got a reference for that, or is it off the top of your head?
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[Ken H]

The current level of opium addiction in China is supposed to be substantially below the 15% known in the mid 1800s.

You trust Chinese stats more than US stats?

If you believe statistical materials from the 1880s I have a whole big bunch of bridges to sell you. The US government didn't even know how many people it had, to say nothing of how many were addicted to what.

201 posted on 06/03/2005 6:44:00 PM CDT by muawiyah (q)