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Last year, China\'s national football team trained for the World Cup at a facility in Yunnan that is run by and named after Hong Ta, the country\'s largest tobacco company. The firm also sponsored David Beckham and the rest of the Real Madrid team when they toured China this summer. And after its advertisements were banned on state television, the Ningbo Cigarette Factory raised the profile of its Dahongying brand by sponsoring school libraries.

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