It seems sort of exploitative and sensationalist to features pictures of one poor old opium smoker when the real story is a wealthy Chinese national acting as a criminal overlord, virtually outside the law in his casino/fortress...
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...but it's nothing new, accounts of opium-smoking in Qing China would always play up the most shocking examples of poor users they could find, leaving out any focus on 'respectable' types - like the missionaries giving out morphine pills in an attempt to 'cure' opium habits
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