"Coffee, Tea, or Opium?"
In "Coffee, Tea, or Opium," the authors main point is that even at this point in history some rulers felt that drug importation throughout other countries was immoral for their economic and social status. China's commissioner for foreign trade, Lin Zexu wanted to stop the illegal importation of opium into his country. Lin saw that the opium trade was damaging the publics health and was bleeding China of its wealth. The emperor of Manchu had given Lin extensive power and ordered him to control the demand of China's people for opium and force the barbarian merchants to cut off the supply.
Throughout this article Wilson shows that as the years past the opium use in China grew substantially:
"During the trading season of 1816-17, about forty-six hundred 150-pound chests of opium entered China. This number rose to 22, 000 by 1831-32 and 35,000 by 1837-38.. That was more than 5.25 million pounds of opium, the carefully collected and dried sap extruded from......

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Title: Coffee, Tea, Or Opium
Approximate Word Count: 957
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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