According to a regulation from central government in China, Chinese officials are asked to "take the lead" in adhering to the smoking ban in schools, hospitals, sports venues, public transport vehicles, or any other venue public spaces.

The smoking ban gives a crushing strike to the tobacco market all around the country, especially in Yunnan.

Abounding in vast tobacco fields and multiple cigarette companies, the province boasts for its upmarket tobaccos for years.

The slap-up cigarettes were used to see their best sales before the Chinese Spring Festival in previous years. However, those expensive cigarettes seem to encounter with an unprecedented "cold winter" this year.

A tobacconist in Dongsi Street of Kunming said, sales of upmarket cigarettes have seen a dramatic drop this year, which is interrelated to the newly launched smoking ban for sure.

A main reason for this phenomenon is because the smoking ban targets at the officials.

The circular points out that government functionaries are prohibited from using public funds to buy cigarettes, nor are they permitted to smoke or offer cigarettes when performing official duties.

Based on a report issued by China Tobacco Control Association in 2012, private companies, state-owned enterprises and government functionaries account for two thirds' total consumption of upmarket cigarettes. Most of them were sent by others as gifts.

A tobacconist in Nanping Street said most of the upmarket cigarettes were bought by public funds or for presenting gifts.

Residents around the country applause for the smoking ban. Result of a survey covered 3,630 showed, altogether 93.22% of them are in favor of the newly lunched smoking ban and 98.76% of them hold the view that officials should not use public fund in buying cigarettes 98.24% of the respondents think cigarette is not a necessity good in official business.