Tobacco Control 2004;13:323
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Japan, India: mobile smoking vans
David Simpson
d.simpson@iath.org
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Japan Tobacco (JT) has launched mobile trailers called Smocars for smokers to smoke in even when it is not allowed in public places. Based on the classic Airstream holiday caravan from the USA, Smocars have been spotted at locations throughout Japan over the past year. JT says it has developed them as part of its initiative for "increased co-existence between smokers and non-smokers in public spaces". At last winters Sapporo Snow Festival, where the Smocar was just one part of a large JT presence, children taken into the car were given free soft drinks. More usually, Smocar is parked in areas such as Tokyos Chiyoda ward, which has an unusually tough ban on smoking in public places. In a letter about the vehicles to the British Medical Journal, Professor Hiroshi Kawane from the Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima College of Nursing shrewdly observed, "I think second-hand smoke combined with exhaust . . . [Full text of this article]
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