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Re:Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision by DetroitThrow on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:59AM (#26697100)
>3. Germans have by and large quit smoking.

I'm not sure how long ago you were in the US, but it was ubiquitous here a couple generations ago, and the shift away from smoking seems to be a global trend associated with wealth - in Mainland china, I see much less of the younger generation smoking nowadays.

I was in Berlin recently and can attest to the English signage anecdote though, even if your experience seems to be an exaggerated version of mine.

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Re:Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision by CodeGlitch on Monday April 05, 2021 @10:42AM (#26699660)
As a Brit who went to Amsterdam a couple of years ago, I was really surprised at the number of smokers on the streets. It's definitely regional.
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Re:Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision by WalterBright on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:45PM (#26705098)
Germans smoked heavily everywhere in the 1980s. This all vanished by the 2000s.

Smoking largely ended in the US by the mid 70s. Not completely, but in the 1960s I recall every office building stunk of stale smoke. This disappeared by the mid 70s.

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