Cigarette manners from Japan

Japan's one of the last industrialized nations in the world where adult smoking is still widespread, but the country's got a sophisticated cigarette etiquette, which includes carrying portable ashtrays for your butts, and not walking while you smoke. Here's a Flickr photo of a really funny, sweet smokers' etiquette book-jacket being given away by a tobacco company in Sanseido bookstores.

Update: Lee sez, "The full set of Japan Tobacco's wonderful 'smoking manner' poster campaign can be found here."

Update 2: Hiro sez, "The Japanese sensibility on this is beyond 'bordering on' the absurd. It's funny and sad and charming: see this image of a roadside ashtray being grossly overfilled, but yet people still take time to squish more butts in."

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