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Casio once made a cigarette-holding ring

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Long before they were making digital keyboards and calculators, Casio’s founder invented the 'yubiwa pipe.' It was a metallic ring that held a cigarette, allowing exhausted post-WWII Japanese workers to smoke hands-free while keeping both hands on their factory machinery. The profits from this lung-destroying ring funded their entry into electronics.

Casio once made a cigarette-holding ring
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