A great rise in Tobacco price?  Still cheaper than most of yours!

JT (Japan Tobacco) still works against the recent anti-smoking tide.

In a local outlet mall, I found this smoker-friendly place that allows me to have a puff without feeling guilty.

From outside, this smoking space looks like a nightclub (in my born-in-the-60s sense) and quite inaccessible.  I hesitated to get in the room thinking someone might smoke something more sinister than tobacco, or there might be a bandit waiting for their victims behind the door.

On the contrary, there was no gang, or rather, no one in the room, and the room looked rather comfortable, except for the subdued lighting (very adult-oriented).

There was a long sofa, flatscreen TV set, some magazines,

and of course a tobacco vending machine.