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A cigarette machine is a vending machine
A vending machine is an automated machine that provides items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and lottery tickets to consumers after cash, a credit card, or other forms of payment are inserted into the machine or otherwise made. The ...
that dispenses packs of cigarettes in exchange for payment. Many modern cigarette machines require customers to swipe an identification card
An identity document (also called ID or colloquially as papers) is any document that may be used to prove a person's identity. If issued in a small, standard credit card size form, it is usually called an identity card (IC, ID card, citizen ca ...
to prevent persons under the legal smoking age
smoking age is the minimum legal age required to purchase or use tobacco products. Most countries have laws that forbid sale of tobacco products to persons younger than certain ages, usually the age of majority.
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from purchasing tobacco. Because of their potential for misuse by underage persons, many jurisdictions restrict where cigarette machines can be located or prohibit them altogether.
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
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'', 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.
Regulatory status by country
See also
*Action on Smoking and Health
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is the name of a number of autonomous pressure groups (charities) in the anglosphere that seek to publicize the risks associated with tobacco smoking and campaign for greater restrictions on use and on cigar ...
* Clark Whittington
Art-o-mat machines are repurposed cigarette vending machines that dispense cigarette pack-sized artwork.
Clark Whittington installed the first Art-o-mat at an art show in June 1997 that dispensed black & white photographs for $1.00 each.
There ...
, creator of the Art-o-mat
Art-o-mat machines are repurposed cigarette vending machines that dispense cigarette pack-sized artwork.
Clark Whittington installed the first Art-o-mat at an art show in June 1997 that dispensed black & white photographs for $1.00 each.
There ...
, a project to convert disused cigarette machines into art vending machines
* Distroboto, a Canadian project to convert disused cigarette machines into zine
A zine ( ; short for '' magazine'' or '' fanzine'') is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via a copy machine. Zines are the product of either a single person or of a very s ...
vending machines
* Taspo
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, 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)
(German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cigarette Machine Cigarettes Vending machines