As of late in Japan, JT, or Japan Tobbaco ( 64.5% government owned) has created a public reltations campaign to make smokers more aware of their actions. Nowhere in the ads aiming to get users to become "good smokers" does it mention that blowing smoke in others' faces is annoying, or that 30% of all cancer deaths in Japan are smoking-related. JT makes billions annually from cigarette taxes, which it then puts into low-interest (at a prime rate averaging 1%) loans to industry, which squanders the cash in innumerable ways... Isn't government wonderful?

In Japan, 30% of all cancer deaths are from smoking-related illnesses. (Statistics published in the Japan Times, April 9, 2004)