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Re:Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index – 2019 edition by lordnacho on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @07:10AM (#19253613)
This seems to have massively changed all over Europe. When I was a kid in the 90s you could go into bars that were foggy with smoke. TV characters would do it.

Nowadays it's generally not cool anymore, it's seen as a vice and people will sdmit so when they ask if it's okay.

Re:Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index – 2019 edition by close04 on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @07:54AM (#19253831)
The laws changed and smoking inside public spaces was all but abolished. There are still holdouts in the countries that passed these laws more recently but the trend is clear and it's acceleration.

I also noticed that one big factor that actually worked in discouraging teens from even starting is the "uncool" image built around smoking.

Unfortunately it look like the coolness factor is moving to electronic cigarettes and there's not much data to discourage the use yet.