SMOKER SUES TOBACCO FIRM FOR TAINTING TEETH, DEMANDS $45 IN COMPENSATION!!

A Beijing-based law professor has dragged a tobacco company and one of its sales agent to court, accusing them of producing or selling cigarettes which turned his teeth yellow. Prof Liu Shengjiang, 35, with the Capital University of Economics and Business, started smoking 15 years ago and now smokes on an average two packs of cigarette per day. Liu said smoking has affected his health and tainted his teeth.

Liu said he was addicted to "Nanjing" brand cigarette produced by Nanjing Cigarette Factory in east China's Jiangsu Province. He has accused the factory of "failing to give a clear indication of the harm of smoking".

"The producer only said 'smoking is harmful' on its package, but we consumers don't know what harm it will cause to us," Liu said. "If there were more specific warnings, a lot of potential consumers will stay away from smoking," he was quoted as saying by the Beijing News.

Liu demanded a written apology and 350 yuan ($45) as compensation from the factory and Guohua Department Store, from where he purchased a pack of cigarette.

But an attorney representing the defendant said it could not be proved "Nanjing" cigarette has directly resulted in Liu's teeth problems, saying drinking tea or soda water can also make teeth yellow.

"The packages as well as the warning on them are in line with the national packaging standards," the attorney said.

Liu said the students and teachers in his university had prepared more than 10 legal cases against the tobacco companies, urging them to adopt new packages to warn people against smoking.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? China parents kill toddler, because she couldn't read!!

A Chinese couple beat their daughter to death a few days before her third birthday because she could not recognise one Chinese character, a newspaper said on Friday. The father, identified only by the surname Zeng, and his wife, Zhang, were arrested in the central province of Henan on Wednesday after the attack on the girl who could not read the Chinese character "jiao", meaning "banana", the Beijing News said. The child "with bruises all around the body" died in the hospital after being kicked and punched, the newspaper said. Chinese parents traditionally have high expectations for their children at school. Earlier this month, a woman from southern China was detained on suspicion of killing her four-year-old daughter because she could not count.