> 3. Germans have by and large quit smoking.
Eh? How is stopping smoking a "US thing"? Surely it's a result of public health campaigns and regulations slowly introduced over decades?
Eh? How is stopping smoking a "US thing"? Surely it's a result of public health campaigns and regulations slowly introduced over decades?
USA has double the smoking rate (per capita) than in my country (2017).
Germany was very,very early with anti-tobacco campaigns: “in 1929 (presumably too late to be included in the handbook) the German physician, Fritz Lickint published a paper in which he showed that lung cancer patients were particularly likely to be smokers. He then went on a crusade against smoking, and antitobacco activism actually became widespread in Germany.”
Hollywood was one of the main proponents of marketing cigarettes.
See also the newish American trend of vaping.
America is the forth largest producer of cigarettes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cigaret...
https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-smoking-rate-what-wor...
It was starkly obvious if you traveled back and forth between the US and Germany in the 1980s. In the 80s US businesses had done a good job of pushing the smokers out on the porch.
I never thought that would work, but it did, and smoking became generally recognized as the filthy habit that it was.
My '72 Dodge hasn't seen a cigarette since the 1980s and still smells like smoke :-)