If you have anything of exceptional value (a family heirloom, a piece of art, jewelry, etc.), you should insure it separately. Insurers will charge extra for this coverage (something like an extra $10 on your monthly premium per $1,000 of value insured), but it pays to be covered.
The Dutch export shipments of Indian opium to China and the islands of Southeast Asia; the Dutch introduce the practice of smoking opium in a tobacco pipe to the Chinese. 1729. Chinese emperor, Yung Cheng, issues an edictprohibiting the smoking of opium and its domestic sale, except under license for use as medicine.
'How Thai monks saved my life': Opium addict who smoked 30 pipes a day details his love affair with the drug and the vomit therapy that cured him. 1  Steven Martin, 50, first smoked opium in 1992 in Laos, where the last of the old Chinese-style opium dens still existed.