Guardian: News travels fast in these globalised times, but not so fast that New York's latest smoking ban covering all its 1,700 parks and 14 miles of beaches had reached Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province in China. Just hours after the new prohibition came into force, Fan Yon Tao, Nanjing resident and New York tourist, stood at the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park nonchalantly puffing on a Marlboro. Yon Tao promptly stubbed out the cigarette and carefully placed it in a litter bin when informed by the Guardian that he had just performed an unlawful act liable to a $50 fine. "No smoking! Good, good!", he exclaimed in rudimentary English.