Tobacco maker group hands over taspo user data to prosecutors

Monday 27th July, 05:09 AM JST

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outofmydepth at 08:47 AM JST - 27th July

throwing mine out today.
nisegaijin at 09:10 AM JST - 27th July

Prison state... Should I get rid of my suica and edy cards?
Altria at 09:38 AM JST - 27th July

This is what happens when you try and regulate tobacco, folks - a police state taking away your freedoms!
TokyoGas at 10:45 AM JST - 27th July

Didn't anyone see this coming?
superdry at 10:51 AM JST - 27th July

One more thing you may want to consider. In the future they could use this card to increase your health insurance costs.
zurcronium at 11:03 AM JST - 27th July

superdry,

good idea. Since smokers cost the healthcare system much more that the normal healthy people they should be charged more for the upcoming lung cancer. In fact smokers should be tagged like cattle so everyone knows immediately that they are essentially suicidal and addicted like any other junkie. Anyone stupid enough to smoke needs to be managed like a member of a herd.
DXXJP at 01:09 PM JST - 27th July

I saw it coming even was against it. I knew there was other motives other than regulating children.
sakurasuki at 02:32 PM JST - 27th July

other than regulating children.

Great using the issue of protecting children for another purpose.

For iraira, nice try I think they judge based on the maturity level from applicant's the personal picture.
iraira at 02:52 PM JST - 27th July

Yeah, good thing sticking more health care costs to smokers, since they pay more in taxes than non-smokers. Taspo spy card for alcohol and associated higher med costs for those with a cirrhotic liver coming soon.
usaexpat at 11:55 PM JST - 27th July

Don't have a taspo card because I never bothered to get one. There is a little old shop around the corner from my house so why bother. Guess the cops won't be able to track me this way.
Klein2 at 12:18 AM JST - 28th July

It is downright creepy.

Has anyone read the science fiction story where smokers can see the aliens but nonsmokers can't? Eventually the aliens start rounding up the smokers and disposing of them. Great story.

Just as a very applicable aside, I was in a ramen shop yesterday that offered me a 100 yen discount if I read their bar code with my cell phone and then entered an email address, name, and age. Does anyone fall for this?

And iraira, don't forget, if you get hepatitis and it is the hospital's fault, you get no compensation in Japan, but if you drink and get cirrhosis, you pay through the nose AND go to the back of the line for transplants. Staying healthy IS the only way to win.

Get back to work CITIZEN!!
cwhite at 01:14 AM JST - 28th July

email with fake name and address would not be a problem for a ramen shop.
kanadamanada at 03:09 AM JST - 28th July

PRIVACY? WHAT PRIVACY?
LIBERTAS at 04:00 AM JST - 28th July

Well, any trust that JT et al had is now shot to hell. Good.
European1 at 12:59 PM JST - 30th July

This is about controlling Japanese who are often unaware of this. We foreigners will be more controlled soon, but we are aware of this. If J people were asked to carry IDs or being fingerprinted and photographed they would refuse saying that is unconstitutional, so there is always way around. New DL`s have chip too and most of Japanese have DL