The City of Hamburg is finally seeing the damage cigarettes can do and are instead giving cigarette vending machines a new lease on life as book vending machines.

Media Bistro’s Galleycat blog reports that “one publisher has changed cancer stick dispensers into book machines,” which hand out original works by Hamburg authors, all of which are available online, too.

Smoking never looked so good.

Elsewhere: [Galleycat] Cigarette Dispensers Refurbished as Book Vending Machines.