I feel like you associate concern with safety to making people aware or restrictions. In other words if a country has a higher drinking age, better education,

I feel like you associate concern with safety to making people aware or restrictions. In other words if a country has a higher drinking age, better education, and more labels then that country cares more about safety. I think that the actions of the population are a better example. Maybe you mean is "the US government is more concerned about safety " but that could be because the population doesn't care. To be fair, Germany has a higher rate of people who smoke (around 23% vs 12%)