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Mar 11 2009 3 Comments

Super-sized cigarettes

More and more restaurants in Tokyo may well be taking steps to separate smokers and non-smokers, although on the whole, tobacco is still tolerated way more than it is in the West. A fact that without a doubt has nothing at all to do with the government holding half of Japan Tobacco, the world’s third largest cigarette company. It’s merely just a coincidence — it must be.

Still, hugely profitable interests aside, it’s plainly not quite the smokers paradise it was several years ago.

No, not by a long shot, and particularly for those partial to pottering about while puffing on a positively preposterously sized cigarette.

Japanese smoking

Such comforts now sadly restricted to when one is motionless,

Japanese smoking

or indeed comfortably consuming a coffee.

Japanese smoking

Categorized: General

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  1. Kesenaitsumi says

    3/11/2009 at 9:10 pm

    Wow..!! the youtube video’s commercial is Epic!!

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  2. phossil says

    3/11/2009 at 10:49 pm

    There’s a new law in here to only smoke tobbaco outside buildings or restaurants, allowing you to smoke in the streets only..

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  3. Makito says

    3/18/2009 at 2:58 am

    Haha.. Tullys – so expensive! but then again, no worse than Starbucks.
    Is the OK TABAKO location specific? I’ve only seen that sign at the one by the Aoiyama Towers in Minato-ku.

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