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• Driver's licenses OK'd for ID use at tobacco machines 

Driver's licenses will be allowed for age verification at cigarette vending machines, in addition to the new Taspo IC cards, as the number of people who have acquired the new ID cards is low, according to sources.

Only 8 percent of the nation's 26 million smokers have applied for the Taspo cards. But if the use of two identification cards is allowed, it would allow people to more easily use the vending machines.

The Finance Ministry has ordered that all cigarette vending machines be installed with the age-verification devices from July to prevent minors from buying cigarettes.

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