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Japanese Company Gives Non-Smokers Extra Vacation Days

A Japanese marketing firm is giving non-smoking employees six extra vacation days each year to compensate them for not taking cigarette breaks. What do you think?

Ken Chadwick • Census Walker

“It’s only fair if they’re forced to spend those extra vacation days in a dingy, designated corner of the office parking lot.”

Ken Chadwick • Census Walker

Teresa Townsend • Patient Transporter

“Small compensation for never knowing the joy of looking out on a neon Tokyo cityscape through a cinematically perfect haze of blue-gray cigarette smoke.”

Teresa Townsend • Patient Transporter

Alan Kantor • Eel Breeder

“Japan’s smoking habit is the reason the country’s average life expectancy is mired at a miserable 116.”

Alan Kantor • Eel Breeder




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