Just as the UK is about to ban smoking in public places ("public" including outdoor bus stops and truck cabs!), the Chinese are embracing the habit with what must be the ultimate smoker's accessory: a mobile phone that stores ten real cigarrettes in the back!

The phone itself is a fairly low-level model: VGA camera, dual-band GSM, MP3 player and small colour screen. Slide open its battery cover, though, and you'll see the strangest addition ever developed for a mobile phone: ten real Chonghwa cigarettes. The phone's even been designed to look like a packet of fags!

Takes the debate on mobile phone safety to a whole new level - if the phone's radiation don't get you, the fags sure will!

More pics after the jump.

[Source: GearFuse]