News from the China Daily that taxi drivers in China’s financial capital of Shanghai are to be issued with “spit sacks” to curb their habit of rolling down their windows and hawking into the road. Spitting cabbies will soon have a sack fixed to the metal grill that surrounds the driver’s seat, so that both (delightfully) they and their passengers can make use of it. The special sacks will be distributed to 45,000 taxis by the Shanghai Patriotic Sanitation Committee to reduce spitting in public places, a habit Chinese authorities say they have long been trying to discourage. Perhaps this is pre-planning for the 2008 China Olympic games, though reports say that it is designed “to make people give up the ugly and unhygienic habit and present a healthy city for the 2010 World Expo.”