Art-O-Mat

Studio 360

Cigarette machines have been obsolete for the last decade or so, forced into retirement by state laws banning tobacco vending machines from all establishments accessible to children. But they’re making comeback — in a Fresh Fields grocery store in Washington DC — only the machine now dispenses, not cigarettes, but art.

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