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General view of the production hall of a new cigarette factory in Changchun in northeast China's Jilin province 17 September 2010. Despite the announcement of banning smoking in public spaces next year, China's cigarette sales still enjoyed growth of 16.7% in the first half of this year.

Inside a cigarette factory

It's not surprising that there would be a lot of cigarettes in a cigarette factory, but it's still impressive to see them.

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Cold Hearted Machines.

This gives a fascinating look into todays abilities for mass production. I used to see these sorts of places a lot when I did Calibrations and what I saw was alien and out of this world technology inside of innocent looking cement walled business parks. Cool Photo. Ribbit.

Alien landscapes.

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