Japanese Cigarette Machines Can Detect Age Of Buyers

Gadget Lab predicts that there will be new fashion amongst underaged Japanese smokers: stupid, wispy, half-grown bum-fluff mustaches. Why? Age-detecting cigarette machines. In order to combat illegal vending sales to the under 20s, Fujitaka Co has come up with a machine which uses a digital camera to study the faces of potential buyers and detect “wrinkles surrounding the eyes, bone structure and skin sags”.
The problem is that the device only achieves a 90% hit rate, meaning that “minors that look older, and baby-faced adults” could fool the machine. These unfortunates will be asked to insert their driving licenses.
The potential for insult here is high, although I know a few people who would be so happy to be thought younger than they are that the temporary lack of fags* would be trivial. We suggest that to be fully effective, though, the machine should detect sallow skin, sunken cheeks and yellowing teeth.