Cigarette machine

A cigarette vending machine is a vending machines for cigarettes. Cigarette vending machines are often placed in public spaces or in restaurants. The payment of the outstanding tobacco products in commercial cigarette packs by means of cash, usually coins, or by debit card. Here, now have almost all cigarette vending machines on the way to pay without cash.

Germany

In Germany 360,000 cigarette vending machines are operated. By changing the Youth Protection Act - applies here since September 1, 2007, a delivery prohibition of tobacco products to persons under the age of 18 - had all machines be converted to a technique that guarantees compliance with the discharge prohibition. The vending industry is here primarily to the youth protection feature of the debit card. This one stored in the chip of the card age information is read electronically. Another way of age verification is in many machines, the Duch pulling the EU driving license or identity card dar. Here an authenticity check through visual features of the identification document is done. At the age of birth control is evaluated. For the conversion of the machine was a transitional period until 31 December 2006. Unclear, however, remains in control of the free sale at petrol stations, newspaper kiosks. Meanwhile smoking in Germany is permitted in public at least 18 years. Until 31 December 2008 young people were transiently buy their cigarettes over 16 years of cigarette vending machines.

Situated and operated vending often by specialized companies, so-called vending machine or cigarette wholesalers. The owner of the installation area ( house or land owners, restaurateurs ) receive a commission, which is calculated based on the number of cigarettes sold.

The setting up of a cigarette is considered Germany's position in the request for a legally binding purchase contract. This means that the insertion of money or paying by cash card is a application acceptance.

Austria

In Austria, there are vending machines both in restaurants and on the street, usually before tobacconists. The pack sizes are sameness, as in the tobacconists. The price is at the vending machines, which are operated by tobacconists, same also as in the tobacconists ( in bars are 10% to 20 % added to the sales price). Payment is made with coins and, in particular after the currency conversion from the schilling to the euro in 2002, also increased bills, the change paid out in coins. The SMS payments via paybox is possible with many machines. By paying with a 10 - € bill usually there is a pressure to buy two packs.

Machines where you could meet its demand for cigars and cigarettes outside the opening times of tobacconists, are in Austria for more than 100 years now. In 1900, several Austrian cities have the Prince Wrede and Consortium issued the authorization to bring his machines on public property for installation. Since January 1, 2007 you have to identify themselves as over -16 -year-old on the purchase of tobacco vending machines. This is done either with a debit card, which is plugged into the quick slot, or via SMS about paybox. There are only Austrian bank cards, which tourists increasingly bitter. Furthermore, it must be bankomat enabled bank cards.

Switzerland

In Switzerland you can find vending machines in most restaurants. Tobacco paper and lighters can be also related to the latter point. It was also possible to 2007 cigarettes from vending machines (so-called Selecta vending machines ) relate which can be found in prime locations in these towns often either at stations or, if the town has no railway station. Here, however, the choice was usually limited to two or three brands.

In several cantons, there are laws that prohibit the sale of tobacco to under -16 or under -18 -year-old ( depending on the canton ). This also includes the sale through vending machines, if they have no system for age verification. However, there are transitional periods for the conversion of the machine.

Italy

Usually cigarettes are sold in stores that have a license for " Sali e Tabacchi ". Prior to these transactions often is a vending machine that sells cigarettes, papers and lighters when the store is closed. Meanwhile, there are also occasional cigarette. For some time now but these machines may be operated only from 22:00 clock in the evening to 7 clock in the morning.

Japan

In Japan, there are about 5.5 million vending machines in restaurants and the outdoors, which account for a turnover of about 44 billion euros annually. Previously the cityscape formative small tobacco distributors that limited their sales to the most common brands and only had very little space, often have their hatch replaced by vending machines. Japanese vending machines offer special features such as acceptance of bills, change dispensing, digital displays for empty compartments and decorative illumination.

Publicly available tobacco vending machines give order to protect young night 23-6 clock no cigarettes. In addition, from July 2008 570.000 of the cigarette were temporarily fitted in a pilot project using a technique that faces potential customers analyzed by digital camera on age characteristics such as wrinkled skin and aligns to the face of the buyer with a database of more than 100,000 people. The manufacturer Fujitaka assumed that their system can allocate 90 percent of individuals correctly. Malfunctions, however, there can be at a very young looking adults and very old -looking young people. As a result, almost all Japanese cigarette vending machines were converted again so that there the purchase of tobacco products is now possible only through a particular feature, the age confirmatory called " Taspo Card", which you can until they come of age, ie aged 20 and over to apply, .

United Kingdom

Since October 1, 2011, the sale of tobacco products from vending machines in the United Kingdom is restricted by law, as up to 35 million annually cigarettes were sold through vending illegally to minors. Violators will be subject to penalties of up to 2,500 pounds (about 2,990 euros ).

In Northern Ireland and Wales, the prohibition applies from 1 February 2012, in Scotland, the launch was postponed due to a pending lawsuit. From 1 April 2012, the advertising of tobacco products and their free sale in supermarkets is made ​​punishable.

Other countries

In many countries there is little or no public freely accessible vending machines. Reasons for this are usually statutory provisions. Thus, there are in France, Spain ( Mallorca), although cigarette, but not in bars where young people under 18 are not allowed.