china gets more than $95 billion at least in annual tax revenue from tobacco-related sales. association is truly a monopoly. this is the regulator. it also runs the china national tobacco corp. that is a monopoly and it is a regulator. the u.s. has dropped tobacco-related deaths and the same needs to happen here. arethey need reforms that enforceable. it will be easy. industry is strong. and a new law will have to come from the very top. many of them are smokers, too, i would assume. >> thank you for that. >> still to come on the program, japan's growth slows more than expected. -- can boeheim though they handle the higher taxes on the way? >> this is "asia edge." families and happy not so happy families in a letter the emerging markets. we are talking about japan. in many ways is a work in progress. at least japan is changing. the difference between japan and many other countries, population aside, is that change must come. until people make the decision, you can't have the right all it takes. time, people have decided that the politics is right. whether the medicine is right has yet to be seen. >> a tax increase next month, it will go down from april to june. it is the ex