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Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany. (www.wsj.com)
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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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[โ€“] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (2 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.

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