JR East Introduces Smoking Ban For Tokyo Stations

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]JR East has issued a press release (Japanese) announcing a smoking ban at 226 stations serving the Tokyo metropolitan area from April 1st next year. Currently, the company allows smoking in designated areas, usually located towards the end of station platforms, but these will now be removed. JR East introduced a smoking ban on all shinkansen in spring of 2007 but did set up some enclosed smoking rooms on shinkansen platforms (see above) and it seems that these will likely remain for the time being. The stations service 17 JR lines and include destinations within a 50km radius from Tokyo station. Most of the private railway operators in the Tokyo area, such as Tokyu, Keio, Odakyu etc., banned smoking throughout their stations in spring of 2003 so JR East has been under pressure to follow suit for some time. Diehard smokers will still be able to evoke memories of puffing away on the platform with these Yamanote line lighters, however:

[Greji]

JR East has issued a press release (Japanese) announcing a smoking ban at 226 stations serving the Tokyo metropolitan area from April 1st next year.

Fucking slugs! (reaches for the lighter and another fag)

[Big Booger]

Excellent. Maybe if they want to smoke, they can do so in a space suit?

[parasitius]

[Neo-Rio]

Then they banned masturbation, and I didn't say anything, cause I didn't want anyone to know I am the world's top wanker.

Masturbation is a wanker's game anyhow

[Charles]

[SIZE="6"]WANT[/SIZE]

[xenomorph42]

[American Oyaji]

You are the best example as to why we all need to smoke the good herb!

got some?

but really, I'm not a smoker, but I like to smoke now and then

I really liked the fact that when I was living in Japan, I could light one up nearly anywhere I wanted to like a bar or something. Bars here in Ohio have banned smoking.

[Mock Cockpit]

Smokers rooms are generally the saddest places on earth but the ones they've put on some of the express trains here are OK. If they had a beer vending machine inside I'd never leave.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I fucking hate smokers. Not only do they feel it's OK to blow their smelly fucking smoke and nasty breath in everyone's face they think the world is their fucking ashtray and leave butts everywhere. The government ought to require tabacco companies to put stronger more deadly poisons in the cigarettes so we'd be done with the problem of smoking in a few years. People would either quit or drop dead. It'd be great. Then any surplus cigarettes could be fed to all the goddam stray cats in Japan.

[Iraira]

I fucking hate smokers. Not only do they feel it's OK to blow their smelly fucking smoke and nasty breath in everyone's face they think the world is their fucking ashtray and leave butts everywhere. The government ought to require tabacco companies to put stronger more deadly poisons in the cigarettes so we'd be done with the problem of smoking in a few years. People would either quit or drop dead. It'd be great. Then any surplus cigarettes could be fed to all the goddam stray cats in Japan.

[Sunday Morning Reductionist Rant Time]
They should put the same chemical in alcohol, so I don't have to step in some chunder all over the street or deal with the toxic breath of some drunk ass on the train, or pay for their liver replacement/therapy (join the Yaks and get your new liver at UCLA).
They should put the same stuff in fatty foods, so I don't have to sit next to some 250 kg fat ass on an airplane, no, so I don't have to have his/her fat dripping over onto my seat, while I'm trying to figure out how to nail the stewardess on her layover.
They should put the same stuff in all foods so as to reduce mean longevity to about 50, then social security, and lonely old folks sucking up medicine at my expense could be eliminated....what economic crisis?
They should put the same stuff in people's seminal fluids, so I don't have to pay for other's STD treatments.
Just Logan's Run anyone over (one year older than me).

[GuyJean]

[Iraira]

None of those vices directly affect the health of someone else's choice NOT to partake:
GJ

I beg to disagree.....Vomit is easy to slip on, especially if the vomitter ate greasy food prior to the regurgitation.

[GuyJean]

.. Vomit is easy to slip on, especially if the vomitter ate greasy food prior to the regurgitation.

And it 'tis the season'..

'Careful out there..'..

GJ

[xenomorph42]

I fucking hate smokers. Not only do they feel it's OK to blow their smelly fucking smoke and nasty breath in everyone's face they think the world is their fucking ashtray and leave butts everywhere. The government ought to require tabacco companies to put stronger more deadly poisons in the cigarettes so we'd be done with the problem of smoking in a few years. People would either quit or drop dead. It'd be great. Then any surplus cigarettes could be fed to all the goddam stray cats in Japan.

Shiiit, you can do that and if you are going for the next presidency, you most definitely got my vote!!

SAMURAI JERK 2012:D

[Charles]

I fucking hate smokers. Not only do they feel it's OK to blow their smelly fucking smoke and nasty breath in everyone's face they think the world is their fucking ashtray and leave butts everywhere.

The world IS my ashtray. Cigarette butts are 100% biodegradable.

[Greji]

Iand leave butts everywhere

I'm for anyone who leaves butts everywhere. I prefer if it is a female butt, but any port in a storm.....

(Looks for lighter which was probably stolen by Iraira for lighting farts...)

[Catoneinutica]

Isn't it about time that smoking was banned in restaurants here? I mean, if the French can do it - <voice of Sam Kinison> THE FRENCH!!! - then anyone can do it.

-catone
-Smoking makes you impotent. Remember that.

[Takechanpoo]

Expelling only smoke of tabacco absolutely makes no sense.
I never smoke and want to do, but I strongly oppose to the fascism of No Smoking. Occacionally Inhaling smokes never hurts your health. Apparently smokers are used as scapegoats.

[wuchan]

Apparently smokers are used as scapegoats.

like gaijin?

[GuyJean]

.. Occacionally Inhaling smokes never hurts your health...

Please provide a link to the Japanese study proving this..

I choose NOT to breath cancerous smoke. Why is someone else's choice to breath it more important than mine?

I will start pissing in people's faces, because it is my right to piss. If you stop me from pissing in your face, my rights are being violated.

GJ

[Takechanpoo]

Please provide a link to the Japanese study proving this..


GJ

No need to prove it.
That is to say, this is a problem about how you feel.
If you think it is no problem to inhale smokes occasionally, you never suffer from cancer, impotent and so on.
Disease always comes from feeling.

[Greji]

I will start pissing in people's faces, because it is my right to piss. If you stop me from pissing in your face, my rights are being violated.

GJ

GJ who are you trying to fool. A bird told me you been yellow showering it for years....

[Iraira]

(Looks for lighter which was probably stolen by Iraira for lighting farts...):cool:

You're still po'ed that I torched your award-winning eyebrows with a mighty blast powered by cabbage-tomato soup and refried beans, thereby preventing you from entering the Chinese kung-fu master competition in Yokohama. Who can blame you when 1st prize was Konishiki's weight in buta man.

[Greji]

You're still po'ed that I torched your award-winning eyebrows with a mighty blast powered by cabbage-tomato soup and refried beans

You're right. No one should have to endure a 20 megaton shot of that nature. Took out two parking lots and my date's dress....

[GuyJean]

No need to prove it.
That is to say, this is a problem about how you feel.
If you think it is no problem to inhale smokes occasionally, you never suffer from cancer, impotent and so on.
Disease always comes from feeling.

Yes, facts mean nothing. It's all how you feel. Asahara has taught you well..

I don't have a problem with smoking in bars]was[/I] nice drinking in LA and coming home not smelling like an ashtray. Just greasy butter..)

Why should smoker's 'rights' be placed above non-smokers?

GJ

[Iraira]

Why should smoker's 'rights' be placed above non-smokers?

GJ

Just to play the devil (dad won't mind me borrowing his moniker this once), maybe because smoker's contribute more to the tax coffer and take out less? You non-smoker's are a non-charitable, selfish lot, with your fake lung butter coughs (do you dance in front of quadraplegics, also?).

[GuyJean]

.. maybe because smoker's contribute more to the tax coffer and take out less?..

I wonder..

Smokers Cost Taxpayers $10 Billion
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/11/tobacco_cost.html

.. According to the research, New York smokers top the list, costing Medicaid $1.5 billion each year. Wyoming had the least Medicaid expenditures due to current smokers, but they still cost the program $15 million each year. The report showed that North Carolinians who smoke cost Medicaid $294 million each year.

The researchers also looked at the cost of Medicaid over the lifetime of 24-year-old smokers because nearly all smokers begin smoking before age 24.

"The benefits of preventing smoking initiation accrue over a longer time horizon," Trogdon said. "Life-cycle estimates are important in gauging the long-term impact of youth smoking prevention on state Medicaid programs. These estimates take into account the differences in life expectancy for smokers and nonsmokers as well as payments into the Medicaid system by smokers."..

Fun stats..

Smoking Statistics
http://www.wpro.who.int/media_centre/fact_sheets/fs_20020528.htm

JAPAN
- About 51% of men smoke in Japan - this figure has dropped from the 1980s, but it is still very high for a developed nation.
- Prevalence of smoking among women, once considered almost taboo, has risen dramatically in the last decade to nearly 10%. (yeah, right)
- Japan's Finance Ministry is a major shareholder in Japan Tobacco, a multinational.
- A survey in the early 1990s found that 44% of male physicians smoke in Japan.
- It's estimated that about one in eight deaths is due to smoking, (about 100,000 deaths a year). Smoking may also contribute to four of the five leading causes of death.
- Lung cancer is the leading cancer, with more than 50,000 deaths a year.
- More Japanese men die of lung cancer than suicide. The rate of lung cancer deaths is 46 per 100,000 people while the suicide rate is 30 per 100,000.
- Japan has some of the weakest anti-tobacco laws for a developed nation, with few smoke-free public areas.

GJ

[Iraira]

I wonder..GJ

Figure that a good smoker contributes at least 300 packs worth per year of taxes, which over the course of 30 years, is at least $27,000 (if the tax is $3/pack). Note: I'm pulling these numbers out of my ass. Now, figure in the tax dollars from the cig companies minus the government subsidies, and add in the employment benefits and the taxes paid by the employees of cig companies and factor in how nice it is to have a cig just before going to bed after some chick has just unclogged every last pipe in your body, and I think it's pretty damn obvious that smoker's are discriminated against.
Plus, you neglected to answer whether you dance in front of poor wheelchair bound children.

[GuyJean]

Figure that a good smoker contributes at least 300 packs worth per year of taxes, which over the course of 30 years, is at least $27,000 (if the tax is $3/pack). Note: I'm pulling these numbers out of my ass. Now, figure in the tax dollars from the cig companies minus the government subsidies, and add in the employment benefits and the taxes paid by the employees of cig companies and factor in how nice it is to have a cig just before going to bed after some chick has just unclogged every last pipe in your body, and I think it's pretty damn obvious that smoker's are discriminated against.
Plus, you neglected to answer whether you dance in front of poor wheelchair bound children.

Well, I contribute more taxes because I drink all the time. This means I piss more too.. Do you mind if I piss in your face? I pay more taxes! (Greji doesn't)..

GJ