A Japanese company called Fujitaka has introduced a “Child Check System” for cigarette vending machines that uses facial recognition. It then compares the face with 100,000 faces in the vending machines database after taking a digital photograph of the consumer.

The legal smoking age in Japan is 20, so if you just so happen to be a 13-year old looking 20 year-old man, you’re shit out of luck. And if you’re a 20-year old who looks like a 13-year old, you get to cheat the system.

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A little more than a year ago we brought you the Ultimate Smokers’ Phone, a device which was made to look like a Chinese-brand of cigarettes’ pack, and even held real cigarettes. This time around, we’ve found a adaptation of the device which is much more Americana, featuring the design of the well-known Marlboro brand.

The Dual-band Marlboro phone features a 1.8″ LCD which offers a display of 260,000 colors and a 176 x 220 pixel resolution, not to mention a smoke whenever you need one. The form factor remains similar to the original, though now with a cowboy killer flair! You can get your own for ?70.62, or about $140. More images after the jump! (more…)

Landline phones are so 1992. And if we had a choice between a cigarette-themed mobile phone or a similar landline device, we’d no doubt choose the mobile version. This particular landline phones attempts to disguise itself as a pack of Camel Filters.

The $49 touchtone landline phone doesn’t even allow the luxury of actually holding cigarettes, but it could be a good way to hide the fact that you even use a landline anymore. For extra fun, count how many subliminal penises you can find. — Andrew Dobrow

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If you’re a smoker, you know that smoking outside in the winter is a very unpleasant experience. If you smoke gloveless, your hands feel like they are freezing over. If you smoke with gloves, your hands are warm, but holding the cigarette becomes an obstacle. These Smoking Mittens make polluting your lungs an easier experience.

Where I live, smoking is banned indoors unless you’re in a privately owned home. Which means lots of outside exposure to the elements. The Smoking Mittens add a small hole on one of the gloves that allows you to hold your cigarette easily without having to risk limb hypothermia. — Andrew Dobrow

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No doubt about it. Smoking is a harmful, and more importantly, expensive habit. This Atomizing Electronic Cigarette at least makes it less harmful to those around you. The cigarette contains no tar or other polluting substance and you don’t even need to ignite it.

The emitted “smoke” is an atomized mist from a tobacco alkaloid; meaning it produces no harmful second-hand smoke. The smokers’ addiction is covered with highly purified medical grade tobacco alkaloid and the normal dose of nicotine. No word on how it mixes with other smoker electronics. Available now for $374. — Andrew Dobrow

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Our girlfriends and mothers nag us enough. “What are you doing to yourself? You should see how your lungs look!” And now our cellphones could be joining the nagging bandwagon. FixNixer is a phone app which is designed to aid smokers to break the habit. Though we don’t know how much good it will do if you have a phone like this.

FixNixer requires you to fill out an online questionnaire about your smoking habits. When time rolls around for your usual smoke break, FixNixer will send you such inspirational SMS messages as “Admit it. Being bored is a terrible excuse to use tobacco. Do you ever say ‘I’m bored. I think I’ll go expose myself to radiation’? No. Didn’t think so”. Don’t think even nagging messages would stop me. — Andrew Dobrow

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What’s more deadly? The ass of an elephant or cigarettes. I’ve never met an elephant so I couldn’t tell you. This ridiculous cigarette dispenser might be pretty awkward to whip out at your next attendance at a PETA meeting. If you bring this to your PETA meeting, you might want to wear running shoes too to escape the angry animal guards.

The cigarette dispensing elephant holds up to 24 ciggys. Four more than your average pack. Just in case you have a few strays lying around you want to get rid of. It’s available now for $9.99, also available in the shape of a donkey. — Andrew Dobrow

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I remember when Smokey the Bear was all over TV, screaming at me and threataning to eat me if I started a forest fire. Of course, not using those exact words, but we all knew the truth. The Fire Extinguisher Lighter brings the best of fire fighting and fire starting together into one pleasant hybrid.

The lighter doesn’t have any fire fighting capability other than its design, which is good since you can’t light a cigarette with a fire extinguisher. You can pick one up for yourself now for $4.89. Go start a fire or two. (Warning: Just kidding about that part). — Andrew Dobrow

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Even non-smokers can have something to tote around in the Cigarette Phone. Cigarettea is cigarette-shaped tea bags for people who like to entertain in a subtle way. People will give you glances of confusion as you drop a cigarette into your boiling water.

Let the Cigarettea settle, just like any other tea, and then drink down its tea goodness. It’s important to not that there is absolutely no tobacco in Cigarettea. Though, the thin tube bag shape is easier for transportation if you can’t live without tea time. — Andrew Dobrow

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In order to appeal to billions of smokers in China, a company has brought out this ultimate cigarette phone. Not only does it look like a pack of cigarettes (the exact size and the exact warning labels concerning health), it actually holds half a pack of REAL cigarettes on the back. All you need to do is to slide open the battery cover and you’re set to make new friends. The phone itself runs on dualband GSM, takes microSD cards, plays MP3, has a color screen and a VGA camera on the side. For $175 you will get a whole luxurious VIP kit with the phone, a pack of Chonghwa branded cigarettes as well as a lighter. More pics after the jump.

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