Japan Tobacco asks employees to vote against local smoking ban

Owned by the Japanese government

An anachronism in this day and age

Causing death, and living off death

 

The first sentence of this story should read "the nation's largest cancer vendor", instead of cigarette vendor.
Oh, sorry, I forgot. This is Japan where the government refuses to accept the link between smoking and cancer. Principally because they make so much money off the taxes and JT's profits.
Can anyone seriously say that they are surprised by this revelation? I for one never assumed JT was a bastion of high corporate ethics/morals.

 

"Japan Tobacco Inc, the nation's largest cigarette vendor, asked employees to vote against enacting a local government ordinance banning smoking in public places in an Internet poll, which in the end drew more votes against than those for, company officials said Thursday."

Well that just supports what many have been saying for a good many years about democracy in japan.

Asking? What a pity to use such a nice word when a more actual factual term would be "told to with a question mark".

Perhaps something like this...." You ARE going to VOTE AGAINST this, aren't you?

See, they asked.

 

it might not help, but i refuse to even buy drinks made by jt.

 

Ofcourse JT will encourage people to smoke more and more..
afterall it belongs to Finance Ministry (major share holder)
For them it is money that counts the most..spend your money on
cigarette first then on medicine and help buy JT shares.
There should be better ways of making money even in capitalist countries not at the cost of human lives..Anyway, people are
more wise than JT thinks

 

Well said. JT is owned by the Japanese Government, who are making huge profits from the cancer weeds and dont care how many Japanese people die from smokiong related illnesses. What a sick country.

 

The more that smoke the faster they die and the less "NENKIN" the Japanese government has to pay. Most die of shock when they find out they've gotten cancer. They dont hang around for ages struggling to survive like their western counterparts. So less spent on medical to keep em going. Its the left hand washing the right. I have to resist the urge to say "smoke more"/"otto motto"...when I see young kids who are obviuosly not even 18 smoking in their middle school uniforms.

 

Their TV commercials are wonderful, huh? "Ah, delight." In what, emphysema? Lung cancer?

 

elitist, holier-than-thou, "what a sick country" bulls**t? Countries in the West only got on the anti-smoking bandwagon a bare decade or two ago, and all of a sudden that makes everyone else morally superior and Japan a nation of idiots?

I absolutely agree that the whole idea of a government owning, and profiting from, a tabacco company is anachronistic, and the "Meet Your Delight" marketing a travesty in the extreme, but so what? American tabacco companies, British tabacco companies still market, sell, and profit from their products, too.

Third-grade Japan bashing has little or no place in the argument.