Same thing is true in the US. Every restaurant used to have a smoking section. The diner where I grew up had ashtrays on every table and a cigarette vending machine by the entrance. And this was in a ‘nice’ town, not some backwater white trash place.
Now I can’t remember the last time I saw a restaurant that allowed smoking. Even among blue collar workers it’s MUCH less prevalent.
Vaping is somewhat more common in the US- I haven’t been to Europe in the last few years (IE since vaping really took off) so I can’t speak with authority on vaping in EU. But of my social circle- a lot more vape marijuana extracts than vape tobacco (marijuana is legal in my state of Connecticut, there’s licensed stores where you can buy weed, vape products, edibles, etc). I really only know two people that actively vape tobacco. One used Jool type pods, and I believe he quit around the time his kid was born. The other you might call an ‘enthusiast’, like she had a fancy computerized vaporizer thingy that ran on a 18650 battery and the tobacco extract came in a big bottle and she’d pour it into these thumb-sized capsules that screw onto the vaporizer gadget.
Same thing is true in the US. Every restaurant used to have a smoking section. The diner where I grew up had ashtrays on every table and a cigarette vending machine by the entrance. And this was in a ‘nice’ town, not some backwater white trash place.
Now I can’t remember the last time I saw a restaurant that allowed smoking. Even among blue collar workers it’s MUCH less prevalent.
Vaping is somewhat more common in the US- I haven’t been to Europe in the last few years (IE since vaping really took off) so I can’t speak with authority on vaping in EU. But of my social circle- a lot more vape marijuana extracts than vape tobacco (marijuana is legal in my state of Connecticut, there’s licensed stores where you can buy weed, vape products, edibles, etc). I really only know two people that actively vape tobacco. One used Jool type pods, and I believe he quit around the time his kid was born. The other you might call an ‘enthusiast’, like she had a fancy computerized vaporizer thingy that ran on a 18650 battery and the tobacco extract came in a big bottle and she’d pour it into these thumb-sized capsules that screw onto the vaporizer gadget.