A cigarette machine is a vending machine that takes cash in payment for packs of cigarettes. Vending machines often dispense packs containing 16 or 18 cigarettes, although the dimensions of the packaging are the same as the equivalent pack containing 20.
Video Cigarette machine
Bans and restrictions
In order to aid the restriction of sale of tobacco to minors, cigarette machines are regulated in many countries.
Japan
Since July 2008, companies may face prosecution if found selling tobacco to anyone under the legal age, 20 years old. To avoid this, Japan has introduced a government registered electronic smart card, called Taspo, that allows the user to purchase from the machines. To get a Taspo card, the purchaser must present their passport or ID to any government-authorized business offering the service.
As an automated way of determining age, the Fujitaka company is developing a technology that allows the vending machine to determine, using a digital camera and based on the facial wrinkles and sags of the potential buyer, whether the buyer is old enough to purchase cigarettes. The system compares facial characteristics including bone structure, sags, and crow's feet against a record of more than 100,000 people. However, if the user fails they can still use the machine with a Taspo card.
Tobacco vending machine prevalence by country
Maps Cigarette machine
See also
- Action on Smoking and Health
- Clark Whittington, creator of the Art-o-mat, a project to convert disused cigarette machines into art vending machines
- Distroboto, a Canadian project to convert disused cigarette machines into zine vending machines
- Taspo, a Japanese system for age verification at cigarette machines
References
External links
- Cigarette vending machines ash.org.uk
- Bundesverband Deutscher Tabakwaren-Großhändler und Automatenaufsteller (German)
- Kunstprojekt: Alle Zigarettenautomaten in Biberach/Riß (German)
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