Thursday 28 June 2007

Social Smoking


This is part of the campaign in Japan to encourage "social" smoking. On street corners there are specific areas where you can smoke, with ashtrays and appropriate signage like this. Japanese smokers seem resigned to these restrictions, maybe because they are quite polite. It says:

"My lit cigarette always points toward others, never toward myself."

"After the corner was turned, the trash was tossed away. It was a blind spot in the city."

On second glance these appear to be instructions on how to incinerate others with a tobacco driven cone of fire, and an endorsement of littering, as long as it's out of sight.

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