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Secondhand smoke is the cost of being in a bar outside of the US. Good luck making friends with European expats without some secondhand smoke.
by idontwantthis 5y ago
Secondhand smoke is the cost of being in a bar outside of the US. Good luck making friends with European expats without some secondhand smoke.
- babypuncher 5y agoI can't stand the smell of cigarettes, many of them make me feel nauseous. This may be because I'm young enough that public smoking has been banned for most of my life, so I never ever got used to the smell.
- tambourine_man 5y agoEurope is the exception here, not the US.
- afcapel 5y agoIn general European countries have bans on smoking in public places much stricter than the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans#Smoking_bans_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans#Smoking_b...
- idontwantthis 5y agoI wasn’t aware of Europe’s laws but I meant outside of Europe too with European expats. Living in Asia currently and second hand smoke is a big part of my social life.
- meowface 5y agoI don't know what the laws are, but the amount of smoking centimeters away from the entrances of buildings in Europe was staggering to me as an American. Both from patrons and employees. I was breathing in smoke plumes pretty much everywhere.
- wyclif 5y agoUsed to be that bars were the place you went in the US to smoke and drink. Since you can't smoke in bars (Note: "pubs" for UK readers) anymore, there's less of a reason to go to them, and it incentivizes drinking at home. Which has led to a lot of bars closing and fewer of them than ever.
- airstrike 5y agoI don't think we're trying to solve for maximizing the number of bars
- babypuncher 5y agoAll the bars where I live seam busy as ever. I don't think smoking bans are hurting them at all.
- tshaddox 5y agoYou don't need bars or luck to make friends with European expats.