“If you love your family, celebrate it by contributing to your own early death.”
From the July 1962 Popular Science magazine.
I was impressed with how much Japan has changed in 20yrs. Smoking areas are very restricted. And everyone complies.
China — on the other hand — is much worse than 20yrs ago. More affluence means more chain smoking anywhere, anytime. It’s bloody awful. A good reason to avoid travel in China altogether.
Rick McCharles 
Japan was still pretty smoky when I was there in 2001, but nothing tops Spain for insane smokers in my travels. If you want a trip down memory lane for how it used to be here in our world, Watch an episode if Mad Men…pretty accurate!