thumb|A Taspo card thumb|Taspo age verification unit on a cigarette vending machine , formerly known as , is a smart card using RFID developed by the Tobacco Institute of Japan (TIOJ), the , and the for introduction in 2008. Following its introduction, the card is necessary in order to purchase cigarettes from vending machines in Japan. The name "Taspo" is a portmanteau for .
thumb|A Taspo card thumb|Taspo age verification unit on a cigarette vending machine , formerly known as , is a smart card using RFID developed by the Tobacco Institute of Japan (TIOJ), the , and the for introduction in 2008. Following its introduction, the card is necessary in order to purchase cigarettes from vending machines in Japan. The name "Taspo" is a portmanteau for .
The group announced plans for development of the Tobacco Card in 2001. The stated aim is to reduce smoking by underaged people. Testing began the following year, and a second round of testing followed in 2004.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).