As someone who just moved here … the Nicotine addiction here is NUTS!! Like all walks of life, all ages, everyone has to be on a cig or a vape at all hours of the day.
Like get it together, Jesus.
Definitely the tobacco consumption in Switzerland is insane! Never seen so many people smoking in a country population before
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It was much worse ~25 years-ago. When smoking was allowed in bars/restaurants. Way better now. Saying that, as a skier, Fvck you dipshits who smoke in the télécabine’s. Bitchsmack every last one of youse.
Weird, I always found it was worse in France personally.
At work/uni I can count on one hand how many smokers I know. My girlfriend (french), on the other hand, smokes and it feels like half of her colleagues smoke.
There’s also a bit of sampling bias here though. It’s mostly by chance that none of my mates smoke. However, as a smoker, my girlfriend has made a number of friends simply by smoking. You go outside, ask someone for a light and get to talking. I sort of envy that about smokers – it’s a good ice-breaker, but not enough to make me want to start.
Makes sense. Freaking smell of that stuff is everywhere.
Well, that’s what you get for having operational headquarters of the largest tobacco corporation in the world…
The only time I saw a child smoking was in Zurich, and it wasn’t even a vape, and there were even cops nearby. Super weird.
Cigarettes are less expensive in Switzerland than in the UK, due to a lower tobacco tax
And smells cigarette everywhere. When I leave HB I smoke a few cigarettes passively.
We are also literally the only place in Europe where you can produce cigarettes forbidden in the EU.
Swiss law is like: Nah, let’s be neutral on that! Just because putting way too much tar in cigarettes is bad, and we don’t want such sorts sold here at all, doesn’t mean you cannot export them to make people badly sick somewhere else?
I wonder why Philipp Morris have their Headquarter in Switzerland…
The university of Geneva has an incredible set
of tools to help people stop smoking including a brilliant app with a really useful harm-reduction perspective on quitting. I’m using it and find it helpful. There was just some sort of no smoking in November campaign. There are some efforts here I think.
Smoking in Switzerland is regarded too much as “normal” (thanks to the tobacco lobby). I see parents smoking on playgrounds and holding their cigarettes right into their buggies. You can’t sit outside in summertime without the table next to you is lighting a cigarette every 3 mins and pollutes the whole area… I think some smokers just don’t care or think it doesn’t bother anyone since they don’t smell it anymore… I thank everyone who changes to e-cigarettes.. it makes it a bit more bearable…
Yes and I asked some people younger than me why and they always give me the same lame ass answer, “because is cool” f lame ass people lol
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As someone who just moved here … the Nicotine addiction here is NUTS!! Like all walks of life, all ages, everyone has to be on a cig or a vape at all hours of the day.
Like get it together, Jesus.
Definitely the tobacco consumption in Switzerland is insane! Never seen so many people smoking in a country population before
Laughs in Eastern European
Accurate
It was much worse ~25 years-ago. When smoking was allowed in bars/restaurants. Way better now. Saying that, as a skier, Fvck you dipshits who smoke in the télécabine’s. Bitchsmack every last one of youse.
Weird, I always found it was worse in France personally.
At work/uni I can count on one hand how many smokers I know. My girlfriend (french), on the other hand, smokes and it feels like half of her colleagues smoke.
There’s also a bit of sampling bias here though. It’s mostly by chance that none of my mates smoke. However, as a smoker, my girlfriend has made a number of friends simply by smoking. You go outside, ask someone for a light and get to talking. I sort of envy that about smokers – it’s a good ice-breaker, but not enough to make me want to start.
Makes sense. Freaking smell of that stuff is everywhere.
Well, that’s what you get for having operational headquarters of the largest tobacco corporation in the world…
The only time I saw a child smoking was in Zurich, and it wasn’t even a vape, and there were even cops nearby. Super weird.
[Im Appenzell rauchen schon die Kinder Stumpen. Ihre Eltern erlauben es.](https://www.20min.ch/story/wenn-kleine-paffen-wie-die-grossen-395138569662)
Cigarettes are less expensive in Switzerland than in the UK, due to a lower tobacco tax
And smells cigarette everywhere. When I leave HB I smoke a few cigarettes passively.
We are also literally the only place in Europe where you can produce cigarettes forbidden in the EU.
Swiss law is like: Nah, let’s be neutral on that! Just because putting way too much tar in cigarettes is bad, and we don’t want such sorts sold here at all, doesn’t mean you cannot export them to make people badly sick somewhere else?
I wonder why Philipp Morris have their Headquarter in Switzerland…
The university of Geneva has an incredible set
of tools to help people stop smoking including a brilliant app with a really useful harm-reduction perspective on quitting. I’m using it and find it helpful. There was just some sort of no smoking in November campaign. There are some efforts here I think.
Smoking in Switzerland is regarded too much as “normal” (thanks to the tobacco lobby). I see parents smoking on playgrounds and holding their cigarettes right into their buggies. You can’t sit outside in summertime without the table next to you is lighting a cigarette every 3 mins and pollutes the whole area… I think some smokers just don’t care or think it doesn’t bother anyone since they don’t smell it anymore… I thank everyone who changes to e-cigarettes.. it makes it a bit more bearable…
Yes and I asked some people younger than me why and they always give me the same lame ass answer, “because is cool” f lame ass people lol
Smoking at the workplace is a Swiss speciality.