Japanese Smoking Manners : A Gallery of Unintentionally Funny Signs

With the smoking ban kicking in, in the UK a couple of weeks ago, simple “no smoking” signs are now plastered everywhere that has 3 or more enclosing walls.. What a missed opportunity - check out the following example of signs from Japan.

They’re not to indicate “no smoking” but rather, to encourage better manners if people HAVE to smoke. A change of a few words and ideas and surely the UK can have livelier, wittier reasons not to smoke?

More signs below and check the link for alot more signs..

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2 comments   |  6,258 views  |  categories : Culture, Japan

1 Yellow Pages Goes Green » Opt Out YellowPages - Japan Tobacco’s Clever and Strange Smoking Manners Signs { 04.15.08 at 1:31 am }

[...] You can find a gallery of over 70 of these signs via Conbinibento and some particulary funny ones at InOnePunch. I’ve been collecting strange signs from all over here and don’t forget Darren’s Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness. [...]

2 Opt Out YellowPages - Japan Tobacco’s Clever and Strange Smoking Manners Signs { 04.23.08 at 7:23 pm }

[...] You can find a gallery of over 70 of these signs via Conbinibento and some particulary funny ones at InOnePunch. I’ve been collecting strange signs from all over here and don’t forget Darren’s Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness. [...]

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