
A monkey smokes a cigarette as part of a street performance in Xian, northern China's Shaanxi province. A French association of animal lovers recently launched a petition aimed at encouraging China to ban, by the Summer Olympics, the killing of dogs for food, as they claimed the practice of preparing canines for the pot often involves slow and brutal methods in which the animal is beaten to death, boiled alive or hung up to bleed while still breathing. (AFP / Getty Images / STR / March 25, 2008)
Just a few of the things the Chinese will be trying to hide during the Olympics in August. God knows they can't hide the pollution.

