Smoking in Japan , though historically less legislated than in many other countries, has changed significantly in recent years. Tobacco use has experienced a nearly constant decline since 1996 and the decline has mainly increased in recent years. The per capita consumption in 2015 was 1,618 cigarettes, about 46% of the peak in 1977 and the last figure seen in 1956. By 2015, adult smoking rates were 19.3%, 29.7% of Japanese men and 9.7% of Japanese women. This is the lowest figure recorded since Japan Tobacco began surveying in 1965. In July 2016, only over 20 million people smoked in Japan, although the country remains one of the largest tobacco markets in the world.
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Histori
Until 1985, the tobacco industry was a government-run monopoly; the Japanese government is still involved in the industry through the Ministry of Finance, which after sales in March 2013, now owns only one-third of Japan's outstanding Tobacco shares, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, active in public health and other tobacco control policy.
The Diet of Japan has many MPs who have an interest in the tobacco industry and thus tobacco control legislation is uncommon.
Non-smoking areas are becoming increasingly common in Japan, in homes, offices, restaurants, fast food restaurants, "family restaurants," pachinko parlors, and public areas. Kanagawa Prefecture imposed the first non-smoking public regulation in Japan in 2009 and Hyogo Prefecture followed by similar laws in 2012. All trains have non-smoking or completely non-smoking cars, as are many platforms of railway stations in urban areas.
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Pricing
Certain brands of cigarettes in Japan cost the same in all vendors, from cigarette machines to large supermarkets to corner stores. Bulk purchases are not discounted. As of August 6, 2013, typical cigarette package prices range from ¥ 410 to ¥ 440 yen. Due to an increase in sales tax consumption up to 8% on April 1, 2014, the range is now 430 to 460 yen.
Smoking ban
Unlike in Europe, Australia and North America, where smoking bans are mandatory in restaurants, bars and public areas, smoking in Japan is not made illegal by Article 25 of the State Health Promotion Act, which only encourages smoking restrictions. Limited indoor ban has been enacted in Kanagawa and Hyogo Prefecture, but not nationally. Other restrictions may be applied by the choice of public and private property owners, managers, employers, etc.
Many of Tokyo's rich wards, such as Shinjuku and Shibuya, implement a variety of anti-smoking laws. They have designated a special section of smoking in these areas and it can be properly punished if caught smoking outside of this area. Chiyoda-ku forbids smoking while walking on busy streets from November 2002, the first local government in Japan to do so.
Beginning in 2007, Kyoto began designing certain urban streets as a non-smoking area, and has since increased the number of such streets. In its 2010 report, the Kyoto Prefecture stated that the main goal of their anti-smoking policy was "to ensure that there is zero chance for people to suffer passive smoking in Kyoto Prefecture."
Company policy
Starbucks is one of the few service industry companies in Japan that prohibits smoking in all of its stores, but allows smoking and provides ashtrays in outdoor seating areas in most shops in Osaka. McDonald's Japan plans to ban smoking in some of its stores after renovation, and has banned smoking in 298 restaurants in Kanagawa Prefecture since March 1, 2010. Kentucky Fried Chicken forbids smoking in one branch in Shibuya, Tokyo in July 2010.
Japanese Japanese women and smoking
While a high percentage of men in Japan have smoked throughout the postwar years, the number for women over the years ranges between 10 and 15%, followed by declines in recent years to float now slightly below 10%.
In the mid-1990s, the number of younger female smokers in particular has increased substantially. Smoking has since declined among this group as well, but the women's group is still smoking at a higher rate than their parents. "The producers are very successful in delivering cool images to consumers," said Department of Health and Wellness technical officer Yumiko Mochizuki, when asked to explain the steady rise in women smokers. "To date, the Ministry of Health and Welfare has an understanding that smoking depends entirely on individuals."
The ban on government advertising based on the "motherly" argument was watertight until the tobacco industry was privatized in 1985. Advertisements that encourage women to smoke are banned in Japan under voluntary industry agreements. Industry groups promise to voluntarily respect the ban on advertising and are charged with enforcing it. American Maker Brown & amp; Williamson sells Capri cigarettes in Japan in a slim white box with a flower-like design on the cover. R.J. Reynolds' Tokyo billboard for Pianissimo Salem cigarettes is green and pink. Philip Morris advertises the Virginia Slims brand with the slogan "Be You" in an advertising campaign.
Other factors contribute to the increase in female smokers. Some observers cite stress, saying that more Japanese women are smoking to relax as more enter the workforce. Others argue that smoking is one arena in which women can have equality with men. The influence of the media was also quoted, as many women in the popular Japanese television drama smoke.
Automatic cigarette vending machine
Cigarettes can be purchased at tobacco shops and in vending machines, and general asphalt dot sidewalks and rail platforms. The number of cigarette vending machines in Japan is estimated at 500,000 in 2002.
The law prohibits smoking by people under the age of twenty.
Taspo is a smart card developed by the Tobacco Institute of Japan, the national tobacco retailer association, and the Japan Vending Machine Producers Association. Introduced in 2008, this card is required to buy cigarettes from vending machines.
In 2008, Japan Tobacco commissioned more than 70 public service style announcements about "smoking habits" about smoking ethics. The ads are displayed in various formats ranging from placards on the subway to postcards to beverage coasters.
See also
- Onshino Tabako
References
External links
- ???????? 1 ?? ???????? (??????) Japan Tobacco (in Japanese)
- Ozasa, Shunichi (February 18, 2010). "Japan Looking for Total Smoking Prohibition in Public Places, Yomiuri Says". Bloomberg.
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