Help smoking cessation

A North Korean pharmaceutical company said it has successfully produced a kind of candy made from herbs to help prevent cravings for cigarettes and cure tobacco-related diseases.

This white round candy will cut nicotine cravings, ' take it out of people who like cigarettes without causing any side effects, improve the immune system and cure tobacco-borne diseases '. , Korea pharmaceutical company Pugang Pharmaceutic said.

According to the company, the candy is made from the ' rare and precious herbs ' chosen from the deep mountains in the North of North Korea that traditional Korean herbalists still use. .

For years, North Korea has launched an anti-smoking campaign, even the leader Kim Jong II called smokers ' one of the three foolish people of the 21st century ', along with Music ignorant and computer ignorant.

It is estimated that more than 40% of the 22 million people in North Korea regularly smoke, compared to about 33% in South Korea. Smoking rates in North Korea are relatively small, most smokers are men.

On the company's website, Korea Pugang Pharmaceutic also said it won the patent for the anti-tobacco candy mentioned in February this year.

The goal of Korea Pugang Pharmaceutic is to produce anti-tobacco sweets for domestic smokers as well as for overseas, with orders on the company website written in Korean and English. However, the company did not announce the price of this candy. For those who want to buy products directly, customers must contact their headquarters in Pyongyang and its subsidiaries around the world, from China, Japan to Indonesia, Cuba .