The Curse Of China-Opium -- A Chinese Coolie cutting the white poppy which furnishes china a with its opium. The Cultivation and smoking of opium is still almost universal throughout china, in spite of all the efforts of the Nanking Government to suppress it. It is estimated that three are 50 millions of addicts to opium smoking in China, out of the country's total population of 45 millions. February 19, 1936. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).;The Curse Of China-Opium -- A Chinese Coolie cuttin