Dr. Gross , who has a well-known fondness of cigars , was smoking one under a giant drawing of Mao backstage after his own talk on Monday at the Great Hall when an official came in and said nobody had done that since Deng Xiaoping , China 's former paramount leader who died in 1997 .
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