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Now that more and more Chinese are traveling beyond spitting distance of their shores, their government is warning them that some bad personal habits don’t travel well at all.

The would-be tourists are being told that while spitting, slurping food and cutting in line may merely disgust people at home, they are sometimes not tolerated at all abroad.  Here is the story:

In an earlier anti-spitting campaign, a sign is posted at a ceremony as volunteers prepare to hand out ‘spit bags’ in Beijing May 23, 2003. REUTERS/Guang Niu