WTF, so many smokers here. Not nearly as many fat people, but the smoking. Nasty! Come on!
WTF, so many smokers here. Not nearly as many fat people, but the smoking. Nasty! Come on!
Agree. It’s terrible there in that aspect. I don’t understand why people do it to themselves
Smoking helps keep our weight down. Also cigarattes are so expensive these days, we can't afford guns.
Eurotrashh wrote:
Smoking helps keep our weight down. Also cigarattes are so expensive these days, we can't afford guns.
I’m in Spain. Never been to Europe before. I like it here.
Seems like everyone just eats and drinks, but nobody is fat. I actually don’t see many people exercising either. Is it the smoking?
Also, the food here is 100x better than food at home. Which makes it even more confusing.
Yes the last time I was in Britain I was amazed by how many people smoke. It's the same in Asia. North Americans and Australasians don't smoke anywhere near as much as the rest.
Unfortunately in Britain, lot of kids still think it's cool to smoke. It's kind of a social ritual.
What I hate most is that since the indoor smoking ban of 2007, we have to walk past lots of doorways with people smoking. If it's a windy day, the smoke often blows back in the building they aren't allowed to smoke in.
curse Sir Walter Raleigh wrote:
Unfortunately in Britain, lot of kids still think it's cool to smoke. It's kind of a social ritual.
What I hate most is that since the indoor smoking ban of 2007, we have to walk past lots of doorways with people smoking. If it's a windy day, the smoke often blows back in the building they aren't allowed to smoke in.
I think it's quite a small proportion of kids who smoke cigarettes in Britain. In continental Europe (especially the south) smoking seems to be more common. Also people in those countries are less likely to obey rules.
These Europeans have to realize that no amount of smoking and trying to look cool is going to make them Jean Paul Belmondo.
curse Sir Walter Raleigh wrote:
Unfortunately in Britain, lot of kids still think it's cool to smoke. It's kind of a social ritual.
What I hate most is that since the indoor smoking ban of 2007, we have to walk past lots of doorways with people smoking. If it's a windy day, the smoke often blows back in the building they aren't allowed to smoke in.
Yes this is noticeable all over the world where these bans have come in. I too hate leaving a mall on a windy day, as the automatic doors open it blows in your face, yuck ?
Coughing man wrote:
WTF, so many smokers here. Not nearly as many fat people, but the smoking. Nasty! Come on!
Ironically enough, I was just talking to a co worker about this last week in regards to the insane amount of "tabachi" smoke I encountered while in Italy. Italy was such a beautiful place that left my wife and I with memories for a lifetime, however, the lack of public ordinances towards smoking is the US going back decades ago before the crackdown in the 90s. I am not against lighting up a lil green in the confines of your home when the mood is right, but damn, everywhere we went in Italy, the cig smoke was overwhelming. My wife was pregnant at the time and a couple sat a table across from us on a patio setting for dinner, both of them lit up as she was visibly preggo, without a care in the world. I was baffled by that. Never in a million years would I light up around a child or pregnant woman, but I guess not everybody sees it the same.
Coughing man wrote:
Seems like everyone just eats and drinks, but nobody is fat. I actually don’t see many people exercising either. Is it the smoking?
I noticed the same. I never saw anybody out running & rarely saw an exercise gym. Our friend from Germany visits here every couple of years & I recall one day we drove by a small group of runners & she asked why people are so obsessed with exercising here (U.S.) She also likes to mention we take everything so serious here. Exercising is extreme, eating is extreme, work is extreme. Maybe they practice more moderation.
Also must be the taking public transportation & walking that keeps Europeans slim. Plus there's less sugar in their sweets & some meals are smaller proportions. Of course the smoking helps.
Don't worry though, Britain isn't too far behind us in terms of obesity.
Yea, more smoking in Europe and the life expectancy is longer. They are less stressed. In the US we are too stressed, work too much. Maybe sitting down with a cup of coffee and a cigarette is a good way to relax?
long john slimmer wrote:
Yea, more smoking in Europe and the life expectancy is longer. They are less stressed. In the US we are too stressed, work too much. Maybe sitting down with a cup of coffee and a cigarette is a good way to relax?
You SJWs take your roles too seriously.
I think you've got your SJWs mixed up, ever been to San Francisco?
Smoking is neither good or bad ! its just stupid ,turning a healthy body into a mess.
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
That nasty cigarette habit is one of the drivers of the popularity of sidewalk cafes. They sit out there baking in the sun drinking beer, eating and, most of all, smoking cigarettes. Then every car/truck/bicycle that goes by (only feet away) kicks up whatever filth is in the street (and there's a lot of it) which then settles on them, their food and their beer.
The smoking is so nasty that it drives me out of the bars, cafes, and restaurants in Europe. On the other hand, outside of Britain, they are far thinner than Americans. Why? They walk a lot, partly as a routine, partly because of ubiquitous public transportation, and they climb a lot of stairs to the trains and in their apartment buildings. They linger over their meals and so eat less, because they don't shovel it down before the feeling of fullness kicks in. They also do not yet eat enormous amounts of sugar and salt with everything. Americans are not adding sugar and salt that much; their food and drink are already processed with them. So, much better to eat a pastry a day and drink coffee with a spoonful of sugar than to drink a handful of cokes or frappucinos and eat potato chips and candy like Americans do. European countries average 3-16 percent obesity, versus 34 percent in America. And Americans walk only a little over half the number of steps per day (30-40 minutes less) than Aussies and Swiss. Lifestyle is a huge factor--the Amish walk three times as much as typical Americans.
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/the-pedometer-test-americans-take-fewer-steps/
As a European, would rather be smoking than be a disgusting fat slob like 70% of Americans
Looking at some comparisons, it seems to me that daily walking is the biggest factor, because Europeans don't take in that much less in calories (but a significant amount, maybe 10-15%), maybe because of alcohol, though they are also taller on average and so require more.
Toward the bottom of the chart, you see Kenya, then Ethiopia near the bottom, and Eritrea at the bottom.
I wonder how much of their distance running success comes from having such a high percentage of the population taking in so few calories, leaving so many more thin people--coupled with running culture, opportunity, and altitude.
Each of these countries also has massive caloric inequality, meaning that most of the population subsists on far fewer calories. Canova has said that many of the new runners he finds are hungry a lot of the time.
161 Kenya 2,030 8,490
162 Timor-Leste 2,020 8,450
163 Tanzania 2,020 8,450
164 Chad 2,010 8,410
165 Angola 1,960 8,200
166 Central African Republic 1,960 8,200
167 Ethiopia 1,950 8,160
168 Zambia 1,880 7,870
169 Haiti 1,850 7,740
170 Comoros 1,840 7,700
171 Burundi 1,680 7,030
172 Eritrea 1,590 6,650