Cigarette Vending Machine English Embellishment

posted on 6 May 2009 in Fun Pics

Tobacco (cigarette) vending machines in Japan are well known to be sprinkled with English as a design element to make them look ‘cool’.  I think some of them promise a bit too much… 

Photo courtesy of Chris & Nancy Logger-Tonelli.
Found in Takasaki, Japan. 

—–UPDATE——

I found another cigarette vending machine with the same English ‘poetry’ on it. Maybe this is an upgraded model… 

Photo courtesy of Tim Putnam.
Vending machine found in Saitama, Japan.  

(10 comments

  1. 9:15 am Ageless says:

    I think it’s better than the warning on our cigarettes that smoking kills. :)

    By the way, if my hair is greenish and my ears pale, am I then an elf?

  2. 11:06 am Bob* says:

    If I didn’t knew better, I think that machine wants me to sleep with it <.<

  3. 1:29 pm ben says:

    I think I’m going to start incorporating “What a kaleidoscope!” into my vocabulary.

  4. 4:46 pm Yesh says:

    such a description…. are they sure it’s tobacco? 0_o

  5. 5:44 pm Cheez says:

    Sounds like it’s been around for a while. The url below has a very short discussion (one reply?) on a cigarette vendor… Back in 2001.

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shakai-archive/message/1065

  6. 11:08 am jjhitt says:

    I used to smoke that stuff until I caught my greenish hair on fire.

  7. 7:33 pm bigcaddy says:

    i dont think they really are tobacco cigarrets

  8. 9:42 am tekleader says:

    Oh, you flatterer! Of course I’ll buy a pack of cigarettes!

  9. 7:32 pm YJ says:

    I think they are smoking weed in the anime world.

  10. 8:26 pm viking says:

    Is this for cigarettes or mushrooms?

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