I’m in Europe, what’s up with the smoking

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5 years ago 03/01/2019 8:04am EST

re: Coughing man

Coughing man wrote:
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.

The food is better because there are less processed foods and restaurants are real restaurants and not some franchise operations.

But smoking is still a bad habit.

People might not exercise much but they walk a lot more. In cities they might live on the 5th floor with no elevator which is pretty common everywhere.

5 years ago 03/01/2019 9:45am EST

re: Vonnegut

Vonnegut wrote:
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.

When I did smoke I used to say:

"I know smoking will kill me slowly. But I am in no hurry."

5 years ago 03/01/2019 10:03am EST

re: Coughing man

The UK actually had lower per capita cigarette consumption than the US, although most European countries are higher. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cigarette_consumption_per_capita

5 years ago 03/01/2019 10:21am EST

re: 1979

1979 wrote:
Only southern Europeans, Scandinavians, French and Dutch are slim. Germans, Belgians and the English are almost as disgustingly fat as you Americans.

Not true. I spent an extended period in Frankfurt, Germany and people were shockingly thin. They wear skinny jeans and look terrific.

5 years ago 03/01/2019 11:08am EST

re: Frankfurters

no surprise here.

moderate diet and walking trumps big time extreme exercising/dieting and is way more important for weight management and healthy lifestyle overall.

it makes sense to see all new extreme approaches to dieting (paleo, keto, etc.) coming from the US. it seems like looking for shortcuts to still eat a lot but somehow minimize weight gain. wrong logic from the start. eating too much never works. sooner or later you will gain weight. physics.

another thing is this exercise obsession.

this is the HARDEST part that many Americans apparently can't do:

moderation:

smaller portions, some exercise, being more relaxed about life in general

take the wisdom from the old continent.

5 years ago 03/01/2019 11:44am EST

re: curse Sir Walter Raleigh

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.

It's better than having to work in a smokey office or put up with it in a pub etc.

A lot less people smoke in UK since the ban was introduced.

Never understood smoking as it gives no effect other than make you addicted to it. A lot start just to fit in which is pretty weak.

5 years ago 03/01/2019 12:03pm EST

re: longjack

longjack wrote:
Comment from Mr. Moran
"Yeah. See, in America, we kinda like minimizing what the Government can force us to do. Freedom - Try it, you'll like it."
There needs to be a word for deluded times a billion.
And there needs the ability to read.
I'm talking about a good lunch and a run as part of the curriculum.
Oh the Nazism of that idea. Poor things, have to get fit and well, what abuse.
Right, lets let the kids be free and have no curriculum at all, a free for all and eat a land of the free McDonald's lunch.
The reality is that America is not a free country and far from it. You live in the USSA, land of the rule, land of tax, land of shitty food, and fat f.u.ck.ers, land of the moran.
American government has intruded on the basic rights of citizens not seen since the Nazis and former USSR.
Your tax code is more than one million words. your rules and regulations =strangle small business,
http://www.searchamelia.com/land-of-40627-laws-and-regulations-more
so smarten up, eat organic and get fit, read a book..
my moran amerika amigos.

America=biggest socialist state on the planet!

4 years ago 03/18/2020 9:59am EDT

re: Coughing man

Each country has specific laws, but in the most of public places you're restricted from smoking and vaping (I enjoy my disposable e-cig Sea Stix https://gypsyvapes.com/sea-stix-vape-pod indoors while I am in Western Europe). Especially be careful with weed, there are no difference between medical and recreational sorts in the most of Europe.

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