Japan’s smoking rates continue to decline for men, women in 2022

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1. Awesome :3

2. Good to hear!

3. Excellent news, and should hopefully continue to decline. I’m sure the government and cigarette companies are sweating though…

4. Not good for my taxes.

5. Great

6. Fantastic. Hope it continues

7. Now if they could just ban it indoors I might actually be able to go out at night.

8. >decline for men, women in 2022

   So they are just declining then. And how exactly are they continuing to decline in year that is over? Going back in time to stop people every other day?

9. I wonder what percentage has switched to e-cigarettes, which are waaaay less bad than regular ones.

10. Somebody please tell this to my local bars and restaurants!

11. JT owns the sole rights to cigs in Japan and is at least 50% government owned. PM and other tobacco companies have nothing to do with this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Tobacco

    JT cig sales also contribute a significant amount to health care subsidies. So all those complaining about smokers will now get to complain about increased health care costs that those smokers were subsidizing. Yay.

12. Still too many restaurants in Japan are still smoky. It’s nasty when you have cigarette smoke and ashes flying around in a sushi restaurant.

13. Yay 😊

14. Its because they changed to Heated Tabacco or Vape

15. Less people drinking. Less people smoking. If they want to keep those tax revenues flowing they need to start legalizing something more interesting.