im a smoker myself from slovakia where smoking is very normalised you can smoke almost everywhere indoors bus stations train stations bars and yes i can agree with you that passive smoking is a big problem but i think that people should just simply make smoking and non smoking bars and designated smoking areas for publix transport stations and not ban smoking completely its a bad addiction and a lot of people i know are trying to quit and me personally when im at a bus station i usually ask the people around me if its okay for me to light a cigarette lol i get a lot of strange looks for doing so but moral of the story everyone can make their own choice and no one should be able to dictate their lifes its not healthy but its your own choice
This bothers me so much. Here in Frankfurt it happens very often that I sit at a tram or bus stop and someone sits next to me or near me and lights up a cigarette, then I have to get up and stand. It is so unfair, so inconsiderate.
For me the weed culture in the USA was a big shock. I mean a "simple" cigarette or destroying your lunges and your brain with weed was a shock :D On the other hand there was this opiate culture that was taken like chewing gum in South Carolina. People got opiates after a simple surgery or after a dentist appointment and it was all over campus. The same with Adderal and the weed I mentioned. Never seen so many drugs in my life. Cigarettes are pretty bad as well though.
There was also a still very famous chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, who’s signature move was to light a cigarette every 10 seconds. On his grave, for example, are often many many cigarette packages
Now that we can go to cafés and restaurants, I also noticed (I almost forgot) that there are way more smokers than I had in mind. I only have one friend that smokes. But the last time we went to a café and sat outside every other minute one of the guests at the other tables lit on a cigarette. And the smoke blew to our table… I was kind of shocked how many people seem to smoke still today. I am glad that in my Bundesland smoking is at least forbidden in closed rooms.
When i was a kid in the seventy's, my mom used to smoke like a factory chimney, she was a "Kettenraucher". When she got pregnant with my sister, she quit this habit. And hasn't started again. My Sister is now 33. She saves the equivalent of what she smoked in a glas yar, 7 Deutschmarks, now 3,5€ every other day. She uses that money to buy the food when going on Holidays. The Cigarette vending Maschines where upgrade, so that you need an ID to proof your old enough. As Kids we we were send to buy the cigarettes from the vending maschine 40 meters away.
I remember back in the seventies, when I was a kid, too, public smoking was allowed everywhere - in trains, bars, public buildings etc. - and smokers wouldn't show any consideration for non-smokers. To me, as a kid, it was very unpleasant when I had to stay in unventilated rooms full of swathes of cigarette smoke.
I don't live in Germany but as an European who has also been to the US (and have relatives living there) I can see where you're coming from. I think many Europeans experience similar culture shock about American "gun culture". Personally I have (more of) a problem with normalization of alcohol. Moderate drinking is likely healthier than moderate smoking, but I feel like every smoker knows the risks because they're shown very visually on a pack. I don't think most drinkers know that moderate alcohol use increases cancer risk. I definitely think that personal experiences shape our opinions a lot. I personally know people in their 20s who died due to alcohol whereas people who die from smoking tend to be over 60 year olds who have smoked for several decades. Either way, interesting video! I think the backlash you got might be because w/o living in the US it's hard to compare. People think "there's anti-smoking campaigns here too, so I don't understand how it's normalized"
Would argue that smoking is almost a class-signifier, or at least one for education. People with university degrees tend to either not smoke or be "party-smokers", while the infamous smoking break and chain smoking is strongly associated with the working class.
I would totally doubt that :D Especially if you look around at university campus. I mean I can only talk about my campus in Munich and not a general rule. I jsut doubt there is a huge difference. Then you add the potheads to that at Universities and it gets worse. Some only smoke cigarettes while others destroy their lungs and their brains with weed.
My feeling is you have to consider where our respective countries are coming from. While it is true that the US have moved to a significantly more extreme position regarding smoking, Germany has moved quite a bit over the past 30 years as well. And do not forget the US came from a more extreme position, I vividly remember using cigarette vending machines in the US and the packet price was 25 % of the price in Germany back then.... I believe it was important to ban smoking inside bars and restaurants because of the massive problem of passive smoking. Methinks the debate on whether it should be illegal to smoke in public is similar to the one whether you should be allowed to drink in public and the policies obviously differ. Here, you do not harm others by doing so, it becomes more of a shaming issue. Here, the European (not just the German) view has been more tolerant. No big deal imho. As to the cigarette butt littering, you are absolutely right, the question becomes how to change this disgusting behaviour.
I don’t know how this video got me recommended , but I just also wanted to comment below. I am a smoker, and when I came to the us to finish my high school, I was shocked to see that nearly everybody was vaping. And they did it everywhere. It was really confusing cause the word cigarette and the word smoking had such bad connotation. In Germany the vapes “Elfbars” are really rising in popularity. One of these vapes has the nicotine of more than on pack cigarettes. This, when my friends from the us visited me they instantly bought those German vapes. The EU government mental nicotine percentage is 2% less than half of the US nicotine percentage in the vapes. They smoked more than one of these vapes a day and still told me that they are now vaping less in the us cause of the low percentage vapes from Germany. I was really shock by it, how addicted they are in comparison to the nicotine I consume with cigarettes a day. They are up by 5 times.
I took a trip to Greece a few years ago and was appalled at the fact that every single place I went was the smell of someone smoking. Like you, I don’t have anything against smokers but it was a real shock since I live in the US where smoking is very much restricted. It was enough that my clothes smelled like smoke. I think I’ll stick with places where smoking is restricted. Cheers
hey Neeva! I'm a fellow American living in Germany and I agree with you 100%. I was shocked by how much German smoke when I first moved here. I think it's slowly getting better though and less people are smoking. Hopefully this continues!
Thanks for this comment!! Yes it definitely gets slowly better, hopefully new restrictions will make some change :) lovely to hear from a fellow American in Germany!
Smokers harm other peoples' health when they smoke in closed rooms in which non-smokers stay at the same time. In this case, non-smokers are forced to inhale the toxic ingredients of tobacco. Besides, smokers burden health insurances with treatment costs of illnesses caused by smoking. Apart from this, smokers may smoke where and how much it pleases them.
I watched the video again and I agree with you! it's pretty double standards (here in germany). shocking pictures on packaging, more and more taxes, etc. the other side "support". you wanted to express that. sorry I had "compared apples and oranges". 🍏🍊
@@neevabee_ On the advertisement aspect. There's not just the billboards, which are getting banned soon, there are cigarette commercials in the movie theaters on age restricted movies like the famous _"Don't Be A Maybe"_ by Marlboro: _th-cam.com/video/tI4ap-lMOoc_/w-d-xo.html But I think it's okay to advertise s legal product to an adult audience, just like with booze. Beer is getting advertised all day long on german TV and hard liquor after 8:15 pm.
Well, that's just the culture. Take a look at French films from the 70s and 80s. I don't think you can find a movie that doesn't smoke. For a long time, smoking was completely normal, also in Germany. Even I started smoking at a young age. I've stopped doing it now. I admit, every now and then I smoke a cigarillo in company. To be honest, it's rarely good for me. I don't miss a thing if I don't smoke! Perhaps awareness changed much earlier in America than in Europe and Germany. Like everything else, the dose makes the poison. As long as you are doing well, I shouldn't care. Provided you take your environment into consideration! If there is no smoking in a society, one should also do it if possible. I think that will definitely change again in the next few years. Maybe then smoking is outlawed here as in America. But as already mentioned at the beginning. It was chick to smoke in the past. But I can understand your reservation.
I am a German living in Austria. Come to Vienna, and you get the real shock. I hate this part of Austria so much. 80% of the time I am walking through the city I am walking in a cloud of cigarette smoke, the smoke is always in your face like at bus stations (and I feel it especially because I have hay fever etc. and then it burns in my nose). As far as I know, beside Greece, Austria is the country with the most smokers in Europe. My smoking colleagues are also ruthless, they say they would not smoke nearby but they do, also close to an area where babies are. When I say "the smoke comes from outside through the window in our room" they just say "no, that's not possible". I work in a public building where it is strictly forbidden to smoke, but there are some rooms where people smoke despite. Etc., etc.
I think the cigarette butt littering is disgusting, too, and I've been a smoker half of my life, but I carry a portable mini ash tray with me. It's not so much about being a smoker, it's more about being an a$$hole. Non-smokers litter, too. Simple as that. ;-) BTW, I think it depends on the state you're living in. I'm from Lower Saxony, and I don't know a single restaurant where you'd be allowed to smoke, not even outdoors. (Wouldn't want to anyway, because that's really inconsiderate.) A couple of years ago I could've pointed you to a handful of bars with a smoking area (which, being closed off from the main area, was usually pretty disgusting to be in even for smokers), but they're long gone now.
Come on....everyone knows smoking in Europe and other parts of the world is like sh_t. It's everywhere he, he, he. Why bother going? To waste all that money going there just to breathe in all that stink...NO WAY! I'll stay in the good ol' USA. ;)
I also hope for more restrictions, for instance regarding smoking outdoors in public spaces. I hate it when I'm at a bus station, for instance, and somebody is blowing smoke into my face, just thinking we are outdoors, what's the issue? It's still smoke in my face. I also agree, however, with things being at least better than they used be. A designated spot for smokers on a platform in a train station is not good (see my point above), but we are coming from times where there were designated cars for smokers INSIDE the train (like 50% of the seats), and if you are weekend commuting and the trains are packed you sometimes you have no choice but to take such a seat. That was so gross! Worst case when the trains were so packed you only got a standing spot in between cars (standing on both feets if you were lucky ;)) and people from the non-smoking compartments went there to smoke. So we went from very bad to bad, still some way to go...
im a smoker myself from slovakia where smoking is very normalised you can smoke almost everywhere indoors bus stations train stations bars and yes i can agree with you that passive smoking is a big problem but i think that people should just simply make smoking and non smoking bars and designated smoking areas for publix transport stations and not ban smoking completely its a bad addiction and a lot of people i know are trying to quit and me personally when im at a bus station i usually ask the people around me if its okay for me to light a cigarette lol i get a lot of strange looks for doing so
one thing in advance: i like your videos and your nice manner! but there is a saying in germany: "wer im Glashaus sitzt, soll nicht mit Steinen werfen" (whoever sits in a glass house shouldn't throw stones). it means: you shouldn't reproach others for something you have or do yourself. America has almost five times more drug users (per million population) than germany (and accordingly the crime). then prefer a smoker! 🚬
If I was making a video about illegal things like this, I would have spoken about the USA. Cigarettes have nothing to do with this - they are legal. I can criticize Germany without having to say irrelevant things about the United States :) one thing has nothing to do with the other!
@@neevabee_ Im not a smoker nut smokers do not need to be inconvenienced. If it is legal then nothing should make it inconvenient for people to do openly. I am thinking I'd like Germany.
And what is the problem with that? Europe has strong Cafe Culture and that won't change. This is about freedom, right? If people want to do it then I do not see a problem with that. You cannot impose foreign views on someone thinking it is good only because it is like that thousands of miles away.
If u find the tobacco consumption in germany confuses u, u really should visit eastern europe where the consumption is still like it was in germany 40 years ago. Here we just value our freedom - like having a smoke after lunch in an outdoor restaurant, a shnaps with friends in public, driving on the autobahn without speedlimits. Ok we can not have guns, but i really would not know why i would need to have one in my every day life :D and this is something that i would find disturbing. when i was in the us for 2 weeks i found it pretty disturbing how many people ate unhealthy food and how insane the average overweight was - theres is fructose in any kind of food - although every doctor says that overweight leads to diabetis, heart attacks, strokes. my point is, it is allways disturbing to see things that r normal outside ur bubble / country.
Totally! And honestly I find all of these things about the United States also really disturbing :/ things that hurt our health and our planet are always bad, but everyone gets to choose for themself!
@@beatrixpastoors1104 Not sure how the situation is now, but I think the tobacco industry in the US was very powerful, as shown for instance in the movie The Insider from Michael Mann with Russel Crowe and Al Pacino.
@@neevabee_ No guns? Maybe in the city! In rural parts every village has a shooting club and it's a big deal as well. The annual "Schützenfest" (rifle-/marksman festival) is often the highlight of the year, were the _"Schützenkönig" (marksman king)_ and his wife gets crowned. The _"Schützenverein"_ also often host a huge firework at new years eve, with regulated explosives. Also hunting is prevalent and private gun ownership is high. Just watch Joerg Spravres clip about guns in Germany: _th-cam.com/video/q0-J2pYLCvI_/w-d-xo.html There are many misconceptions about this topic in the US and even in Germany, since Germany is very urbanized and many people live in cities and know nothing about life on the countryside. Like for instance, we can own certein guns here, that are actually banned in the US. We also have a pretty hard _"stand-your-ground-law"._ _"Das Recht muss dem Unrecht nicht weichen"_ und _"Notwehr/Nothilfe"_ are just, if not more so, far reaching then US law.
I have everything against smokers. I am very sensitive and everytime that I have to deal with smokers I always get sick because of them. They think they have the right to smoke wherever they please and they are very disrespectful and smoke next to the others. They don't care that their addiction will be very bad to others, like children, animals, old people and sick people. They love to throw their cigarette butts on the streets and beaches and that thing contaminates everything and everywhere. Besides, the combustion of the cigarette makes climate change worse. That was completely clear after the pandemic quarantine! The list of catastrophic things that they do is very big. They should smoke in the right space with a big filter to clean the toxic smoke. It's a big taboo to talk about smoking problems in Europe because the smoke industry is very big. They love addicted people so they can control everybody and profit from them. It's sad!
Forgive me... No matter how many times you say that you are not, you seem advocating shame. You repeatedly use pejorative terms like "bad" in the sentence after you claim not to be judging. You are correct that shame is an effective deterrent but you should look into yourself and see what you are actually saying. The funny part of the whole thing is that I am fairly sure the reason you repeatedly say that you are not espousing the need for shame is because you are ashamed to think that you may be exposing that. If you believe in the use of shame you should own it. This was an interesting video but a philosophical mess.
im a smoker myself from slovakia where smoking is very normalised you can smoke almost everywhere indoors bus stations train stations bars and yes i can agree with you that passive smoking is a big problem but i think that people should just simply make smoking and non smoking bars and designated smoking areas for publix transport stations and not ban smoking completely its a bad addiction and a lot of people i know are trying to quit and me personally when im at a bus station i usually ask the people around me if its okay for me to light a cigarette lol i get a lot of strange looks for doing so but moral of the story everyone can make their own choice and no one should be able to dictate their lifes its not healthy but its your own choice
This bothers me so much. Here in Frankfurt it happens very often that I sit at a tram or bus stop and someone sits next to me or near me and lights up a cigarette, then I have to get up and stand. It is so unfair, so inconsiderate.
For me the weed culture in the USA was a big shock. I mean a "simple" cigarette or destroying your lunges and your brain with weed was a shock :D On the other hand there was this opiate culture that was taken like chewing gum in South Carolina. People got opiates after a simple surgery or after a dentist appointment and it was all over campus. The same with Adderal and the weed I mentioned. Never seen so many drugs in my life. Cigarettes are pretty bad as well though.
I dont smoke but it should be okay for people to smoke in public without being inconvenienced.
P. S. One reason for this is that Germany actually has tobacco farmers and a tobacco industry, which are lobbying the government.
The US does as well.
In dom rep we have lots of farms and we don't smoke as much, we send Our Venom to you!
There was also a still very famous chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, who’s signature move was to light a cigarette every 10 seconds. On his grave, for example, are often many many cigarette packages
Now that we can go to cafés and restaurants, I also noticed (I almost forgot) that there are way more smokers than I had in mind. I only have one friend that smokes. But the last time we went to a café and sat outside every other minute one of the guests at the other tables lit on a cigarette. And the smoke blew to our table… I was kind of shocked how many people seem to smoke still today. I am glad that in my Bundesland smoking is at least forbidden in closed rooms.
When i was a kid in the seventy's, my mom used to smoke like a factory chimney, she was a "Kettenraucher". When she got pregnant with my sister, she quit this habit. And hasn't started again. My Sister is now 33. She saves the equivalent of what she smoked in a glas yar, 7 Deutschmarks, now 3,5€ every other day. She uses that money to buy the food when going on Holidays. The Cigarette vending Maschines where upgrade, so that you need an ID to proof your old enough. As Kids we we were send to buy the cigarettes from the vending maschine 40 meters away.
That is amazing about your family! Such a good idea. Thanks for the comment :)
I remember back in the seventies, when I was a kid, too, public smoking was allowed everywhere - in trains, bars, public buildings etc. - and smokers wouldn't show any consideration for non-smokers. To me, as a kid, it was very unpleasant when I had to stay in unventilated rooms full of swathes of cigarette smoke.
@@c.norbertneumann4986 Yep. Going through the kitchen? Pinch your nose shut and run or else 🤢
Thank you for your information 🎉🎉🎉
I don't live in Germany but as an European who has also been to the US (and have relatives living there) I can see where you're coming from. I think many Europeans experience similar culture shock about American "gun culture".
Personally I have (more of) a problem with normalization of alcohol. Moderate drinking is likely healthier than moderate smoking, but I feel like every smoker knows the risks because they're shown very visually on a pack. I don't think most drinkers know that moderate alcohol use increases cancer risk.
I definitely think that personal experiences shape our opinions a lot. I personally know people in their 20s who died due to alcohol whereas people who die from smoking tend to be over 60 year olds who have smoked for several decades.
Either way, interesting video! I think the backlash you got might be because w/o living in the US it's hard to compare. People think "there's anti-smoking campaigns here too, so I don't understand how it's normalized"
Well said mate.
Would argue that smoking is almost a class-signifier, or at least one for education. People with university degrees tend to either not smoke or be "party-smokers", while the infamous smoking break and chain smoking is strongly associated with the working class.
Totally! Socioeconomic status definitely matters. It’s like this in most places!
I would totally doubt that :D Especially if you look around at university campus. I mean I can only talk about my campus in Munich and not a general rule. I jsut doubt there is a huge difference. Then you add the potheads to that at Universities and it gets worse. Some only smoke cigarettes while others destroy their lungs and their brains with weed.
My feeling is you have to consider where our respective countries are coming from. While it is true that the US have moved to a significantly more extreme position regarding smoking, Germany has moved quite a bit over the past 30 years as well. And do not forget the US came from a more extreme position, I vividly remember using cigarette vending machines in the US and the packet price was 25 % of the price in Germany back then....
I believe it was important to ban smoking inside bars and restaurants because of the massive problem of passive smoking. Methinks the debate on whether it should be illegal to smoke in public is similar to the one whether you should be allowed to drink in public and the policies obviously differ. Here, you do not harm others by doing so, it becomes more of a shaming issue. Here, the European (not just the German) view has been more tolerant. No big deal imho.
As to the cigarette butt littering, you are absolutely right, the question becomes how to change this disgusting behaviour.
I really appreciate your opinions! Thanks for commenting. Everybody makes their own decisions and has their own opinions :)
I don’t know how this video got me recommended
, but I just also wanted to comment below.
I am a smoker, and when I came to the us to finish my high school, I was shocked to see that nearly everybody was vaping. And they did it everywhere. It was really confusing cause the word cigarette and the word smoking had such bad connotation.
In Germany the vapes “Elfbars” are really rising in popularity. One of these vapes has the nicotine of more than on pack cigarettes. This, when my friends from the us visited me they instantly bought those German vapes.
The EU government mental nicotine percentage is 2% less than half of the US nicotine percentage in the vapes.
They smoked more than one of these vapes a day and still told me that they are now vaping less in the us cause of the low percentage vapes from Germany.
I was really shock by it, how addicted they are in comparison to the nicotine I consume with cigarettes a day. They are up by 5 times.
"Smoking is bad for you", I mean, obviously, but generally speaking, people don't do drugs because they are good for you.
I took a trip to Greece a few years ago and was appalled at the fact that every single place I went was the smell of someone smoking. Like you, I don’t have anything against smokers but it was a real shock since I live in the US where smoking is very much restricted. It was enough that my clothes smelled like smoke. I think I’ll stick with places where smoking is restricted.
Cheers
Bro no one cares
@@rankoss3437 i care. Youre wrong.
hey Neeva! I'm a fellow American living in Germany and I agree with you 100%. I was shocked by how much German smoke when I first moved here. I think it's slowly getting better though and less people are smoking. Hopefully this continues!
Thanks for this comment!! Yes it definitely gets slowly better, hopefully new restrictions will make some change :) lovely to hear from a fellow American in Germany!
I don’t see a issue with people smoking. It’s their choice and they can do with their lungs what they want
The most available items in Germany are cigarettes. You can get it anywhere.
Is the situation in 🇬🇧 any different from that in 🇩🇪 ??
im not from gb but if im not wrong there are quite a few bans for smoking
Smokers harm other peoples' health when they smoke in closed rooms in which non-smokers stay at the same time. In this case, non-smokers are forced to inhale the toxic ingredients of tobacco. Besides, smokers burden health insurances with treatment costs of illnesses caused by smoking. Apart from this, smokers may smoke where and how much it pleases them.
I agree! People can choose to do what they want with their own body - but it definitely isn’t good 😝
I watched the video again and I agree with you! it's pretty double standards (here in germany). shocking pictures on packaging, more and more taxes, etc.
the other side "support". you wanted to express that. sorry I had "compared apples and oranges". 🍏🍊
Don’t worry! Conversation is healthy! Thanks for commenting your opinions :)
@@neevabee_ On the advertisement aspect. There's not just the billboards, which are getting banned soon, there are cigarette commercials in the movie theaters on age restricted movies like the famous _"Don't Be A Maybe"_ by Marlboro:
_th-cam.com/video/tI4ap-lMOoc_/w-d-xo.html
But I think it's okay to advertise s legal product to an adult audience, just like with booze. Beer is getting advertised all day long on german TV and hard liquor after 8:15 pm.
Well, that's just the culture. Take a look at French films from the 70s and 80s. I don't think you can find a movie that doesn't smoke. For a long time, smoking was completely normal, also in Germany. Even I started smoking at a young age. I've stopped doing it now. I admit, every now and then I smoke a cigarillo in company. To be honest, it's rarely good for me. I don't miss a thing if I don't smoke! Perhaps awareness changed much earlier in America than in Europe and Germany. Like everything else, the dose makes the poison. As long as you are doing well, I shouldn't care. Provided you take your environment into consideration! If there is no smoking in a society, one should also do it if possible. I think that will definitely change again in the next few years. Maybe then smoking is outlawed here as in America. But as already mentioned at the beginning. It was chick to smoke in the past. But I can understand your reservation.
Thanks for commenting your thoughts on this! I appreciate your perspective :)
I am a German living in Austria. Come to Vienna, and you get the real shock. I hate this part of Austria so much. 80% of the time I am walking through the city I am walking in a cloud of cigarette smoke, the smoke is always in your face like at bus stations (and I feel it especially because I have hay fever etc. and then it burns in my nose). As far as I know, beside Greece, Austria is the country with the most smokers in Europe. My smoking colleagues are also ruthless, they say they would not smoke nearby but they do, also close to an area where babies are. When I say "the smoke comes from outside through the window in our room" they just say "no, that's not possible". I work in a public building where it is strictly forbidden to smoke, but there are some rooms where people smoke despite. Etc., etc.
Ugh! That’s awful! I’m so sorry! People can smoke if they want but it would be nice if they could be considerate of others :/
I know I know, you start smoking at 15 years old. I can see It when you come to the Caribbean, Dominican Republic.
I think the cigarette butt littering is disgusting, too, and I've been a smoker half of my life, but I carry a portable mini ash tray with me. It's not so much about being a smoker, it's more about being an a$$hole. Non-smokers litter, too. Simple as that. ;-)
BTW, I think it depends on the state you're living in. I'm from Lower Saxony, and I don't know a single restaurant where you'd be allowed to smoke, not even outdoors. (Wouldn't want to anyway, because that's really inconsiderate.) A couple of years ago I could've pointed you to a handful of bars with a smoking area (which, being closed off from the main area, was usually pretty disgusting to be in even for smokers), but they're long gone now.
Come on....everyone knows smoking in Europe and other parts of the world is like sh_t. It's everywhere he, he, he. Why bother going? To waste all that money going there just to breathe in all that stink...NO WAY! I'll stay in the good ol' USA. ;)
I also hope for more restrictions, for instance regarding smoking outdoors in public spaces. I hate it when I'm at a bus station, for instance, and somebody is blowing smoke into my face, just thinking we are outdoors, what's the issue? It's still smoke in my face.
I also agree, however, with things being at least better than they used be. A designated spot for smokers on a platform in a train station is not good (see my point above), but we are coming from times where there were designated cars for smokers INSIDE the train (like 50% of the seats), and if you are weekend commuting and the trains are packed you sometimes you have no choice but to take such a seat. That was so gross! Worst case when the trains were so packed you only got a standing spot in between cars (standing on both feets if you were lucky ;)) and people from the non-smoking compartments went there to smoke.
So we went from very bad to bad, still some way to go...
Yes! Progress is always good so let’s hope it continues :)
im a smoker myself from slovakia where smoking is very normalised you can smoke almost everywhere indoors bus stations train stations bars and yes i can agree with you that passive smoking is a big problem but i think that people should just simply make smoking and non smoking bars and designated smoking areas for publix transport stations and not ban smoking completely its a bad addiction and a lot of people i know are trying to quit and me personally when im at a bus station i usually ask the people around me if its okay for me to light a cigarette lol i get a lot of strange looks for doing so
one thing in advance: i like your videos and your nice manner!
but there is a saying in germany: "wer im Glashaus sitzt, soll nicht mit Steinen werfen"
(whoever sits in a glass house shouldn't throw stones).
it means: you shouldn't reproach others for something you have or do yourself.
America has almost five times more drug users (per million population) than germany
(and accordingly the crime). then prefer a smoker! 🚬
If I was making a video about illegal things like this, I would have spoken about the USA. Cigarettes have nothing to do with this - they are legal. I can criticize Germany without having to say irrelevant things about the United States :) one thing has nothing to do with the other!
@@neevabee_ Im not a smoker nut smokers do not need to be inconvenienced. If it is legal then nothing should make it inconvenient for people to do openly. I am thinking I'd like Germany.
Great video sister. Imagine all the pregnant moms smoking and giving birth to handicapped babies
And what is the problem with that? Europe has strong Cafe Culture and that won't change. This is about freedom, right? If people want to do it then I do not see a problem with that. You cannot impose foreign views on someone thinking it is good only because it is like that thousands of miles away.
If u find the tobacco consumption in germany confuses u, u really should visit eastern europe where the consumption is still like it was in germany 40 years ago. Here we just value our freedom - like having a smoke after lunch in an outdoor restaurant, a shnaps with friends in public, driving on the autobahn without speedlimits. Ok we can not have guns, but i really would not know why i would need to have one in my every day life :D and this is something that i would find disturbing. when i was in the us for 2 weeks i found it pretty disturbing how many people ate unhealthy food and how insane the average overweight was - theres is fructose in any kind of food - although every doctor says that overweight leads to diabetis, heart attacks, strokes. my point is, it is allways disturbing to see things that r normal outside ur bubble / country.
Totally! And honestly I find all of these things about the United States also really disturbing :/ things that hurt our health and our planet are always bad, but everyone gets to choose for themself!
Maybe the American lobby of the sugar producing industry is much more powerful than was that of the tobacco industry.
@@beatrixpastoors1104 Not sure how the situation is now, but I think the tobacco industry in the US was very powerful, as shown for instance in the movie The Insider from Michael Mann with Russel Crowe and Al Pacino.
@@neevabee_ No guns? Maybe in the city!
In rural parts every village has a shooting club and it's a big deal as well. The annual "Schützenfest" (rifle-/marksman festival) is often the highlight of the year, were the _"Schützenkönig" (marksman king)_ and his wife gets crowned. The _"Schützenverein"_ also often host a huge firework at new years eve, with regulated explosives. Also hunting is prevalent and private gun ownership is high.
Just watch Joerg Spravres clip about guns in Germany:
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There are many misconceptions about this topic in the US and even in Germany, since Germany is very urbanized and many people live in cities and know nothing about life on the countryside.
Like for instance, we can own certein guns here, that are actually banned in the US. We also have a pretty hard _"stand-your-ground-law"._ _"Das Recht muss dem Unrecht nicht weichen"_ und _"Notwehr/Nothilfe"_ are just, if not more so, far reaching then US law.
@@OKuusava smoking outside does not harm anybody else.
Smoking in germany is pretry normal, even for teens! I started smoking when i was 13, now im trying to quit (im 15 now)
Try to find these numbers for the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s.
People used to smoke more... yes... it is like this in all countries including the USA :) it doesn’t prove any point or change anything I said!
The German government earns a lot of tax money with smoking.
The same with alcohol and petrol.
That's just a business for them.
I have everything against smokers. I am very sensitive and everytime that I have to deal with smokers I always get sick because of them.
They think they have the right to smoke wherever they please and they are very disrespectful and smoke next to the others. They don't care that their addiction will be very bad to others, like children, animals, old people and sick people.
They love to throw their cigarette butts on the streets and beaches and that thing contaminates everything and everywhere.
Besides, the combustion of the cigarette makes climate change worse. That was completely clear after the pandemic quarantine!
The list of catastrophic things that they do is very big.
They should smoke in the right space with a big filter to clean the toxic smoke.
It's a big taboo to talk about smoking problems in Europe because the smoke industry is very big.
They love addicted people so they can control everybody and profit from them.
It's sad!
Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche - waren früher selber welche !
How about just move back to the land of the great, so you don't have to be bothered by us German smokers 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You guys smoke more than bats.
Smoking is 😝😝😝
Forgive me... No matter how many times you say that you are not, you seem advocating shame. You repeatedly use pejorative terms like "bad" in the sentence after you claim not to be judging.
You are correct that shame is an effective deterrent but you should look into yourself and see what you are actually saying. The funny part of the whole thing is that I am fairly sure the reason you repeatedly say that you are not espousing the need for shame is because you are ashamed to think that you may be exposing that.
If you believe in the use of shame you should own it.
This was an interesting video but a philosophical mess.
Just ban smoking in public places thats the most effective
Oh man. I hope you get the downvote. Some countries in the eu even allowed smoking inside again.
Welcome to the EU 👍