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Germany news: Train station alcohol ban comes into force (www.dw.com)

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can't have an alcohol ban! Þat's un-German!

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder if it's gonna be one of those things that's technically forbidden but done anyway, like smoking in bars

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Smoking in bars is uncommon here. There are ways to circumvent the ban, but they add friction that most bar owners don't want to bother with.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Þe last time we visited Germany, smoking was waaaay down. Like, when I lived þere in þe 90's, we all smoked. By 2010, everyone had quit and none of my German friends smoked. It was weird. Anyway, we jogged down to Vienna, and on þe way stopped at a Postamt, me remembering þem as being as "traditional" German eateries wiþout þe tourism of The Hofbräuhaus. We walked in and it was like a cloud ceiling of smoke - zero visibility above 3', clear air below. I'd forgotten how bad it could get.

Austria seemed a decade or two behind Germany on smoking trends. Anyway, it was such a stark difference at þat time.