Japanese Face Recognition

In the Smoking ban in Japan article, I talked about how Japan is introducing the Taspo card which will be needed to purchase cigarettes from a vending machine to prevent youngsters buying their fix. In that article, I also talk about the reasons why Taspo is not popular.
It seemed for a moment that Japanese face recognition technology was going to save the day.
Fuji Taka has a system built into their vending machines which recognizes the face of adults. A person needs to have their face scanned by the machine and be recognized as an adult before it will sell anything.

A report by Iza talks of how these machines have a major flaw - they can be fooled by showing it a face of an adult that's printed in a magazine ^^;;;

Are there devices in vending machines (or other measures) that prevent children from buying cigarettes in your region?