The legal smoking age in Japan may be 20, but schoolgirls in need of a nicotine fix have always had an easy workaround: "Vending machines can't tell if you're 16," says Haruka Narazaki, a student in Osaka. The ubiquitous dispensers have long sold packs of Mariboros and Mild Sevens to anyone with the yen, and they never asked for ID-until now.
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