Chain Smoking Blue Monkey

This photo was found at the Chicago Tribue with the following text:

Taking up the habit
An unidentified Chinese woman holds her pet monkey who had taken up smoking in Fuzhou, southeast China’s Fujian province, Thursday. The death toll from diseases associated with tobacco is about one million Chinese annually, a figure that is expected to increase to 2.2 million per year by 2020 if smoking rates remain unchanged, according to the World Health Organization.

(AFP/Getty Images photos)
Jun 1, 2007

No word given on the current smoking statistics for monkeys. Note, this monkey is NOT blue and therefore may not be able to provide you with appropriate levels of desktop computing technical support. However, the chain around the neck indicates that the monkey may be employed in the field anyway.

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