Is this guy making fun of me? 

What kind of question is this? How to make a ghost smoke? Smoke your sister! 

I shook my head, “I don’t know. I’m just an antique salesman. You’ve got the wrong guy.”

“Sir, why are you being dishonest? I know everything about you, so it’s pointless to hide things. Just tell me the truth, okay? I’m not asking for free; I have money.”

Then, the heavy smoker took out a large stack of cash. All of them were five or ten-renminbi notes. I estimated that it was around one or two hundred renminbi in total.

I was amused. “I already said that I don’t know. Can you stop bothering me? Otherwise, I'll have to get someone to kick you out.”

“I’ll leave if you answer my question.” The heavy smoker shamelessly sat down next to me.

I was speechless and could only reluctantly tell him, “For a ghost to smoke, they’d have to die for that very same reason. For example, the Chinese smokers who died during the Opium War died because of smoking. After dying and becoming ghosts, their addiction did not end, and they continued...