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Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany.
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this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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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.
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.
*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.
*tobacco
What a word!