“The legal age for smoking in Japan is 20 and as the country’s 570,000 tobacco vending machines prepare for a July regulation requiring them to ensure buyers are not underage, a company has developed a system to identify age by studying facial features.”

I think this is unfair! Just recently I started noticing my first wrinkles, and I am 34. I have even recently been carded for buying Lotto tickets! If I wanted to buy cigarettes in Japan, I would most certainly be out of luck. I am sure you don’t have to look like this man…

But, geez, if I was in Japan, and wanted to buy a pack of smokes, I might have to resort to asking 80 year old women to buy them for me.

There are so many variable to why a one persons face wrinkles faster than others. It could be genetics, smoking (duh), smiling too much, or even meth usage!

This new system might cause hard core smokers to start thinking of ways to turn back the clock. Could it be that Japan could become the next Los Angeles, with people getting face lifts left and right? Are Plastic Surgeons, and the Tobacco Companies working together? Hmmm, something to ponder.

In my youth, I found clever, and thrifty ways of creating paraphernalia for marijuana. There was the toilet paper roll, the pop can, and even a variety of fruit. It always seemed a little desperate.. a little.. crack-whorish. Yet It’s what I had to do to get high, when I didn’t have a pipe. I will even admit to using these things recently in a pinch.

I will not admit to being desperate enough to do what these two boys

did… They made a Skull Bong Not only is it twisted, but they went through a lot of work to get it. I think I will stick with pop cans next time in a pinch.