japan tobacco regulation news Japanese University Says It Won't Hire Teachers Who Smoke Driving Growth in Heated Tobacco:

Fruit- and candy-flavored vape products, popular with younger users, will be banned from convenience store shelves and can only be sold in licensed specialty vape shops

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The article in the Lancet has much more detailed data about all sorts of smoking traits that did not make it into this chart, but the chart succeeds in portraying two gendered vectors of smoking behavior: the different rates of smoking between men and women and the difference in the number of cigarettes smoked between the two genders

Despite the ban, use including in open public spaces is tolerated and there are more than a hundred online stores in operation