Wow, there has been a huge influx of visitors to this site recently. Just within the past few days, the Smoking Manners gallery has been linked on over 30 100+ other blogs and message boards, drawing traffic of nearly fifty times the usual average. The funny thing is that aside from the seven new ads added last week, the gallery itself has been up for nearly a year now already.

A lot of people have been asking whether the ads are real, and the answer is yes. They can be found throughout Tokyo, and I would imagine in other cities as well. It really is a great campaign — it’s a unique way to present the anti-smoking message, and the unintentional hilarity makes it a joy each time one encounters a new ad. It’s obvious that a lot of time and effort were invested into making them, as they are the first (that I have ever seen, at least) to feature grammatically-correct (albeit slightly odd) English. Who wouldn’t love a job writing copy like that, eh?

Anyhow, I just wanted to clear that up. To any new visitors: Welcome to the conbinibento.com and thanks for stopping by. The photos here suck and the writing is even worse, but please feel free to browse the rest of the site if you haven’t got anything better to do.