Japanese people used to beone of the heaviest smokers on the planet,so cigarettes have always appeared in anime. But rarely as an object of focus. They were simply too commonplace for that, so they became part of the background until Japan did a 180 on its smoking culture, heavily regulating all things tobacco, like severely…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the company’s next-generation console must prioritize affordability alongside performance, telling the BBC that rising component costs, driven partly by AI spending, have put the entire industry in what she called the middle of a “Rampocalypse.”
