The world's largest tobacco museum is to open in Shanghai, providing a look at the history of China's tobacco industry.

Situated in Yangpu District, the five-story museum houses around 150,000 exhibits collected from tobacco companies and smokers on the Chinese mainland and abroad. CRI.com reported Thursday.

Seven display halls cover tobacco farming, management of the industry, tobacco culture and smoking celebrities.

A display on the tobacco industry includes wax figures of tobacco farmers and workers in cigarette factories. It also includes several tobacco processing machines.

A touch-screen display includes more than 10,000 cigarette packages. The exhibits include some smoking equipment, such as pipes and cigarette holders, used by famous people, like Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. 　

(CRI.com July 15, 2004)