After moving to Germany I seem to have a hard time to stay away from someone's cigarrete smoke cloud! Even in an icecream shop someone might come and sit in the next table smoking among so many kids FFS!
Don't get me started with the cig butts planted into every plant pot in the city! In nature. In train tracks.
So yeah, just ordered some posters that encourage peopel to guit from german government to put up in the city! It might make a tiny dent in the issue. Join if you like, it's free of charge:
https://shop.bzga.de/rauchfrei-jugendkampagne-plakatserie-rauchfrei-bist-du-dabei-31604012/
End rant. I hope you all are fine and not bothered by the smoke clouds.
by gotshroom
29 comments
Oh don’t worry there is a rant like this on here every week, we get used to it. And trust me most Germans don’t like the smoke as well
YES, no one should be bothered by your stinking cancer smoke.
I feel you. It’s disgusting.
that, combined with the fact that Germans are (typically) very scary to confront, friendly or not. Often they just go nuclear on you for bringing up a topic, so I just move away when I see a smoker next to me, I don’t wanna risk saying something and having a full-on shouting match in the middle of the street.
Gosh, the first few months in GermanyI felt like I had travelled back in time. I don’t get how smoking is still popular here in spite of everything we know about it.
I wonder how many smokers quitted because of a poster.
I like smoking.
I live in the country side and I could never live in a city or a multi-story building. Whenever I visit friends in the summer I am so pissed off at the cigarette smoke coming in through the windows from the neighbors.
I don’t smoke and am not too bothered by those who do but the sheer number of young Germans smoking is crazy to me. I am surprised when I meet people who don’t smoke. That alone has made me slightly more anti-smoking than before
So many smokers and my god do most Germans have the WORST fags to smoke. Dirtiest things ever, at least in my semi-rural area.
I wish I could break out my British “could you not, mate” but am still working on figuring out how to pull that off in German.
Also so many young folk here smoke too. The fact I still see cigarette machines and even some adverts definitely doesn’t help.
I can’t say I can agree. I used to work with around other 100 millennials in a big tech department and we had 2 smokers.
Now I work mainly with GenX and GenZ (we Millenials are a minority) and only the 3 older GenX smoke and no one else.
I think it depends on your bubble. Smoking is also prohibited in restaurants, bars and discos here in Bavaria. It’s only allowed outside and only if there isn’t a no-smokers sign. It happens very rarely that I’m sitting outside at a restaurant and people are smoking during the day
It’s also banned at bus stations, metro and trains. To be honest, I barely see people smoking this days
We spent a weekend in Leipzig last month and we noticed that smoking inside bars is allowed there at night and that even some cafes allow it during the day. To be honest, we were shocked. It’s not allowed here in Bavaria and we didn’t know this was different in each state.
Its not called the ash try of Europe for no reason.
Looks to me like you forgot to do your homework before moving to a foreign country.
You cannot move outside without having to inhale someone else‘s smoke, especially if you go by public transport in a city. Even on playgrounds smokers have no issues smoking when kids are there. It‘s a nightmare for non-smokers.
And you should not talk to the smokers or else you might end up in hospital.
Still better than the constant weed cloud over LA and other US cities.
As a German who moved away from Germany many years ago. Every time I visit, the public smoking is one of the things I hate the most.
I smoke, but it still pisses me off how often I see parents smoking while pushing their kids in a stroller… Everyone just stands around and does it like it’s normal.
Me living in a country where indoor smoking is not yet illegal.
The thing about smokers that pisses me is that they have no awareness of others around them. They’ll start smoking at bus stops while there’s others downwind of them and let the smoke blow in their face.
The amount of trash they leave everywhere is disgusting. Cigarette butts are everywhere. In parks, in the road, in the Fußgängerzone, bike paths, bus stops. The trash from smokers is inescapable.
And I’ve never met a smoker personally who didn’t liter everywhere.
Honestly really wish they would enforce littering fines on smokers. I know they won’t but I wish they would.
People talk so often about the smoking culture here and while yes, smoking is bad and I hate the smell as well, I always wonder just how little people in other countries smoke.
Its gotten so much less within the last 15-20 years. I still remember when they had indoor smoking areas in cafés and restaurants. These days, I’m seeing less and less people smoke.
However, I’ve seen articles stating that people started smoking more again during the pandemic.
Smoking has always been cool among young Germans aged 13-20. Back when my parents finished school (late 1970s) everyone just smoked and nobody even asked themselves why. When I finished school in 2013 most of the popular guys and some popular girls smoked tobacco, weed wasn’t that popular (we had like 2 or 3 stoners).
When my brother finished school in 2016 the cool guys still smoked, and as a cool guy ofc he smoked ever since 14 or 15.
It pisses me off that there isn’t non smoking sections of outdoor seating at restaurants. Completely asi behavior as far as I’m concerned.
Yeah I’m a smoker and I agree with this. Don’t smoke in the bus stop if someone is there – walk away. Don’t smoke in outdoor seating, it will waft to ten tables around you – walk away. Same goes for restaurants when you go outside – nobody wants to walk through your plume when they exit or enter. I also don’t smoke as I walk cause passing pedestrians will get the plume. I also don’t smoke on the balcony cause it will waft through open windows. I take a walk down the street and sit on a bench by myself lol. Greatly helps with not smoking out of boredom. Clean up your shit when you’re done. Be considerate if you want your fix.
Where are you from?
Just went to italy on a two week vacation and people smoke so much more in italy. Chain smoking at the restaurant (outside seating) was the norm.
Compared to that I barely see cigarette smokers in Bavaria
I’m German and for me it was moving back to East Germany . Amount of smoking in the West was okay but in Eastern Germany its horrible.
So many people smoking with their toddlers or babies right next to them.
There has been a steady decline in Germany. Fewer and fewer young people smoke.
Get fucked
Im with u! It’s annoying as fuck!
The amount of times somebody smelling like an whole ash tray sitting nearby on public transport has given me headaches…