I'm going to go out on a limb and say this that I think this is a cultural bias, not a 'racial' one. Anecdotally, the number of college-aged Asians you walk pa

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this that I think this is a cultural bias, not a 'racial' one. Anecdotally, the number of college-aged Asians you walk past in the street that are smoking is much higher than the number of college-aged caucasians. I won't pretend to know which portion of which demographic is immigrant or not, but Melbourne imports absolutely huge numbers of international students, a large portion of whom come from Asian countries and who have grown up in a country where smoking is not the social-taboo it is among millennial Australians. Among older generations, I don't see the same marked divide. Older Australians smoke much more frequently than their younger counterparts. As a side note: I don't know a better way to separate out Australian-born "Australians" who may be of any race, including Asian, from "international students from Asia", so if any of my phrasing comes across smelling even slightly offensive please let me know.