• t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    21 days ago

    I’m in Germany right now, and it’s crazy how much more smoking of cigarettes there is than in the states. I hadn’t realized how much it’s disappeared in the US until coming here and smelling cigarettes everywhere

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      21 days ago

      And even here in Germany it is already astonishingly low, compared to only a decade or two ago.
      We started pretty high. During my childhood in the 80s, completely smoke-filled rooms were the norm, and it was very uncommon for an adult not to smoke…