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IC tech to stop teen smokers II
March 31st, 2006

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More news on a story we’ve been following since last year: the cancer-stick merchants are going ahead with a plan to stop killing underage Japanese. The Tobacco Institute of Japan will start switching over to cigarette vending machines that have an IC chip-based age-verification system in March 2008.

(Via Crisscross News)

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