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Japan took the opposite approach of most countries - smoking allowed indoors, prohibited outdoors. Restaurants had smoking and non-smoking sections (which someone joked is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool). I don't see many restaurants with smoking anymore, but most bars still allow it.
Outside, they've built a lot of walled smoking areas. Sometimes they're completely enclosed rooms. Someone should make a photo collection of smokers' jails. They look hilarious, all crammed in there.
I'm tempted to say good riddance, I don't smoke, but then I'm sure one of you would start quoting the "First they came for the..." poem at me 😄
The change from near zero during covid to record highs a few years later makes it particularly striking, but yeah it's insane.
That said, you can escape them by going just a few streets over, but the main thoroughfares are overrun.
Maybe, but also, the entire population of the world just got back from visiting Japan 😏
Just a few weeks ago, I saw about a hundred people and they said several hundred attended throughout the day
Please do! I'd say there's a decent amount of interest in the technological and speculative aspects, but still not much consideration of it as a serious investment, much less a medium of exchange.
There are small but active Japanese and expat groups.
I gotta get to publicizing
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