For a start, the paper ends up portraying alcohol as much more harmful than tobacco when there are health benefits to moderate drinking but none for moderate smoking.
Even in Shanghai, where smoking incurs none of the opprobrium that it does in New York, tobacco advertising has been banned along the waterfront Bund, the city's equivalent of Times Square.
These days, there is no shortage of commercials showing the effects of cigarette smoking, but there are (as of this writing) none that show the desperation and panic derived from being in debt or facing a financial crisis.