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The Fujitaka company system compares facial characteristics including bone structure, sags and crow’s feet against a record of more than 100,000 people. Spokesman Hajime Yamamoto told Reuters: “With face recognition, so long as you’ve got some change and you are an adult, you can buy online cigarettes like before. “The problem of minors borrowing identification cards to purchase cigarettes could be avoided as well.” The company says the system gets it right in nine out of ten cases. The remaining 10% would be sent to a “grey zone for baby-faced adults” where they would be asked to insert their driving licence or identification card. Japan has 570,000 tobacco vending machines. The country’s finance ministry has already given permission for an age-identifying smart card and a system to read the age from driving licences.