While opium smoking was not new in China, it was  not yet the massive social ill it would become, and during the 1780s, British merchants  struggled to sell even one crate to the Chinese.

虽然吸食鸦片在中国并不新鲜， 但还没有成为严重的社会弊病，在 1780 年代， 英国商人甚至连一箱鸦片都难以卖给中国人。

Hong also declared that land should be evenly shared among people, free from the control of landlords and government slavery, concubines, arranged marriages, opium smoking, judicial torture, and the worship of idols were all to be eliminated.

洪还宣布土地应在人民之间平均分配，不受地主和政府奴役的控制， 妾，包办婚姻，吸食鸦片，司法酷刑和偶像崇拜都将被消除。