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Chinese smoking makes bibles more expensive

Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, April 13, 2007 2:04 PM

From Fons Tuinstra:

Heavy smoking makes bibles too expensive
Chinese men are smoking more heavily and that has made the bibles worldwide more expensive, I read in a rather Christian newspaper from the Netherlands. For cigarettes the same kind of paper is being used as for printing the bibles and this smoking habit is not only killing the smokers, but also the sales of bibles.
The German Bible Association has complained about this in the German weekly Der Spiegel. Sales of the bible in Europe are declining, but it is unsure whether only the price is an issue here.

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haha, this is hilarious. even though it is true, cant bibles be made of other kinds of paper? however, it is so not the reason for that sales of bibles in china isnt going very well. besides, if chinese people wanna buy bibles, they would just buy cheap copies, lol. btw, i resent those stupid missionaries in china.

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