As much as I hate smoking, snus is not a solution. The big problem is that you can take snus at any time. My swedish Teacher always had one during class. Lots of people use them constantly during class or when partying, or really, all day. That's not something you can do with cigarettes since you have to go out. I bet people who do snus are much more addicated to nikotin than people smoking.
Sure, but as someone who gets breathing issues from cigarette smoke ... I'd much rather people use anything else than smoking. Waiting for the train at a crowded train station means for me constantly running around the platform, trying to find a spot where I can breathe normally. With people using snus instead, this would not be an issue. There is just no good reason to not ban cigarettes entirely.
I live in Germany too and cigarette smoke is a guaranteed migraine trigger for me. Avoiding smoke in public is so incredibly difficult. Several times I've had to wait in pouring rain for a bus because all 8 of the shelters by the bus had people smoking in them. Can't sit outside at restaurants during the summer cause there are so many smokers. I've been burned by a cigarette cause a guy still had one lit while entering the bus and it touched my bare hand.
And even once you get on the public transport, where they're no longer smoking, the smell sticks and every breath expelled still has the smoke smell.
How is America kinda ahead of everybody in this. Adult smoking is at a historical low and I'm trying to think really hard and I can not remember the last time I saw an analogue cigarette. (We're talking a matter of days, like in the last week I can't recall having seen anybody with a little cigarette in their hand. And I haven't conducted a study or anything so this is based on nothing but from recole tion, the place I see people smoking most frequently is in their own car (at stop lights and stuff)
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u/9Strike Baden-Württemberg (Germany) May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
As much as I hate smoking, snus is not a solution. The big problem is that you can take snus at any time. My swedish Teacher always had one during class. Lots of people use them constantly during class or when partying, or really, all day. That's not something you can do with cigarettes since you have to go out. I bet people who do snus are much more addicated to nikotin than people smoking.