• Casterial@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    When I went to Europe there were cigarettes butts everywhere, and people smoked like crazy, felt like US in the 70s

    • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      People giving you flack for treating Europe like a country but tbh I’ve been to Germany (multiple cities), Spain (Madrid), France (Paris), Netherlands (multiple cities), and Norway (multiple cities) in the last 2 years at least and the only one without a smoking and littering problem was Norway (if I’m recalling correctly).

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      17 hours ago

      Depends totally on which country. And what demographic you visit.

      South and East Europe smoke a lot more than North and West. People outside bars smoke because if they didn’t smoke they’d be inside.

      • Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 hours ago

        That’s from a European perspective. To me, they all smoke a lot. Shockingly so when one is used to the US. There are regional differences, but it’s more like comparing the size of Lake Constance to Lake Superior: both are huge.

      • cmbabul@slrpnk.net
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        16 hours ago

        Maybe things have changed as it’s been a hot minute, but smoking in France and Portugal was common and casual in public when I was there, the UK was/is draconian about it i will admit