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Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany. (www.wsj.com)

submitted 1 year ago by tal@kbin.social to c/europe@feddit.de

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Health experts think low tobacco prices, a general tolerance of smoking and changes brought by the pandemic may explain the uptick in cigarette use.

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[–] taladar@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I wonder if switching from the term 'smoker' to something more accurately describing the experience for people around them, maybe something like 'stinker' and 'horrible stinker' instead of 'heavy smoker' might help reduce the appeal.

[–] Wirrvogel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The exact opposite has happened, because "smoking" was a bad term, now it is "vaping" and that sounds cool, doesn't it. That's also the way smoking made a comeback with young people, vaping and ~~tabak~~ tabacco with sweet tastes and nice scent and shisha bars.

[–] A2PKXG@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*tabacco

And at least vapers don't stink. Nicotine on its own isn't even too bad for health. It's just catastrophic when it makes people inhale smoke.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 year ago

Vapers make the entire area around them stink