Application beginning of adult identification card "taspo" for cigarette purchase

*The taspo card introduction"Measures for minority smoking prevention"

The authentication system by "taspo" is the one introduced as "Part of a further strengthening of the approach for minor's smoking prevention" though it can explain details even by [日本たばこ協会の説明ページ] besides an official page. The examination introduction is already done in various places, and the card has come to be applied for before the vending machine development with the whole country on a nationwide scale this time. The person who wants to buy the cigarette in this vending machine applies for the taspo card after proving I am an adult beforehand. The user comes to be able to buy the acquired card for the first time in touch to the reading part in the vending machine, and clarifying the adult the purchase applicant.

Purchase process with taspo card introduction machine

It uses as "Approval card + digital cash" by "taspo" not only is used as an approval card like the license certificate but also charging with original digital cash (Pidel), and only "taspo" makes an adult check and purchase possible. There is not sharing with other digital cash such as Edy and Sucia under the present situation.

"taspo" As for the issue cost of the card, it is free, and the annual membership fee is also free. However, the procurement of the copy of the photograph of face and the personal identification material needed when applying is independence. Moreover, expiration dates are issued up to one person every ten years. I hear that event bus "Taspo bus" issued in the place was managed with necessary material for the person with a troublesome application.

By the way, "taspo" is not needed because it sells it after it is confirmed whether the clerk is an adult in the shop face-to-face selling such as convenience stores.

*The sales environment of the cigarette changes suddenly by the taspo card introduction?

There is the one of the type that it is built from the beginning into the vending machine of the type for "Taspo card" internally, and only the type and the adult attestation unit that can use digital cash "Pidel" are installed. There is a difference such as being not able to use "Pidel" by the order until buying different ("The card is held up", "Money turning on", and "Commodity selection. " in the all-in-one design in "Money turning on", "Commodity selection", "The card is held up", and the installation type), and latters in the former and the latter.

A lot of effects are achieved by this "Taspo card" introduction as "Approach for minor's smoking prevention". On the other hand, the necessity that matches a further match strengthening to the check in store-based sales and does is thought (There is a possibility that the layer that was not able to be bought in the vending machine flows to the shop, too).

Moreover, movement to assume that the profit cannot be taken because getting depressed of the sales performance is expected by rising and introducing the installation and the management cost (loss of "Purchase chance" by forgetting PITA factor and the card by not the meaning of the decrease of the minority's purchase but the adult) and to remove the vending machine from the shop and the street corner is seen partially.