JAPAN LOSING ‘SMOKERS’ HEAVEN’ STATUS – BUT TOBACCO SALES STILL ROBUST
May 1st, 2010
BY GAVIN BLAIR
AWARE that Japan's attitudes towards smoking have been more relaxed than in most of the rest of the industrialised world, the Japanese have long referred to their own country as 'tabako tengoku' - which literally translates as smokers' heaven. However, change toward restrictions and disapproval of smoking seems to be finally coming, slower than it has occurred in other countries, but happening nonetheless.
Kanagawa, the nation's second most populous prefecture after Tokyo, (to the south of the capital), with nearly nine million residents, recently ...
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