1954年11月,时任中国人民解放军财务部部长的杨立三,就制造高级香烟问题给华东财经委员会主任曾山等人写了一封信。信中第一段话说道:“毛主席告我说,现在做的纸烟质量总比外国人制造的要差,要拿点好烟招待外宾,纸烟二面没有中国字,都是外文,很不好。要搞一种较好的烟出来,不用 In November 1954, Yang Lisan, then minister of finance of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, wrote a letter to Zeng Shan, director of the East China Financial and Economic Committee, on the issue of manufacturing advanced cigarettes. The first paragraph of the letter said: "Chairman Mao told me that now the quality of cigarettes made by foreigners to make worse, get some good smoke to entertain foreign guests, both sides of the cigarette without Chinese characters are foreign languages, very Well, it’s better to engage in a better kind of smoke