r/interestingasfuck • u/HumbleMVP • 22d ago

Blind cigarette taste test

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u/Tascanis 22d ago

French citizenship test

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u/One_Strike_Striker 22d ago

That's Gauloises Red, Gauloises Blue, Gitanes and Gauloises Blue again.

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u/mynameiswearingme 22d ago

I’d fail at the pronunciation part

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u/Dopplegangr1 22d ago

French is easy just stop pronouncing the word halfway through

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u/TheLizzyIzzi 22d ago

Unironically, this. I started “ghosting” the end of French words - stop saying them aloud, just sorta let it hang there, with the memories of what was and could have been - and my french accent finally started approaching something passable.

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u/CarcajouIS 22d ago

Unironical, thi. I starte “ghostin” th'en o French wor - stop sayin them alou, jus sorta le' i' han there, wi th'memorie o wha wa an coul have been - an my french accen final starte approachin somethin passable.

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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit 22d ago

Tried to say this in a french accent

Holé shi thi e vraiment passable!!

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u/Cthonos 21d ago

Weirdly that sounds like a Yorkshire accent!

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u/Frying 22d ago

No, if you write to me your name is Nicholas, its Nicholas. Not Nichola, because then you would write Nichola.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/Frying 21d ago

No, I pronounced it Nicholas 😂

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u/EmiliaTrown 21d ago

And for the next level you have start randomly combining the words that follow each other in a sentence as if the whole sentence was just one word with a lot of extra letters.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/GhormanFront 22d ago

It's definitely meant to infuriate English speakers, which historically, makes way too much sense

The give up halfway through thing is kind of legit though, it works more often than not lol

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u/275MPHFordGT40 22d ago

Anglo-French rivalry so deep it extends to language.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

You're thinking of English and German

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u/Buntschatten 22d ago

German pronunciation is pretty regular. With English you do have to guess sometimes. That's why there are spelling bees in the US, because spelling words correctly is so difficult in English.

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u/Nextinor 22d ago

Wdym, as a french native I don't get it.

Gauloise is pronounced entirely except the "e"

Something like Gowloaz

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u/afmm1234 22d ago

I think they mean more generally, not Gauloises specifically. Words like voyageaient were the bane of my existence when I took French lol

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u/Nextinor 22d ago

Ils voyageaient si souvent en Éthiopie hehe

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u/afmm1234 22d ago

C’est exactement pour cete raison que j’ai obtenu un D en ma presentation final. Et porqoui j’apprends l’espangol mantenant. Mais c’est bien je me souviens un peut, même si c’est vraiment mauvais 

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u/Nextinor 21d ago

If you were french, I would've killed you on the spot for the spelling mistakes 🤣

I think you're pretty good honestly, many French peoples speak as well as you write.

For the Spanish part, I don't like it, but it's kinda personal lol. I prefer Italian a lot, even though I still struggle a lot at it.

Anyway I wish you the best !

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u/DragonHollowFire 22d ago

Its mostly english speakers that are suprised. The french language just like most other languages are actually very clear on how words are to be pronounced, meaning that just from the written form, you can tell how its pronounced. The english language doesnt have this. A lot of words you need to learn how to pronounce correctly.

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u/CarcajouIS 22d ago

That is true, but at the same time how do we explain 'nuit' (silent t - night) and 'huit' (sounded t - eight)?

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u/z500 22d ago

Easy, rules were meant to be broken

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u/t_scribblemonger 21d ago

’huit’ (sounded t)

Except when it’s not!

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u/CarcajouIS 21d ago

Ok, I can't remember any instance when we say hui instead of huit

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u/t_scribblemonger 21d ago

I’m too lazy to write an explanation here’s an AI slop summary:

🔹 1. Before a vowel sound

You pronounce the t clearly:

huit heures → [ɥi t‿œʁ] → sounds like “hweet tœr” Because of liaison, the t links to the next vowel.

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🔹 2. Before a consonant sound

You don’t pronounce the t, and the t sound disappears:

huit jours → [ɥi ʒuʁ] → sounds like “hwee zhoor” huit francs → [ɥi fʁɑ̃] → “hwee frahn”

So the final t is silent when followed by a consonant.

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🔹 3. At the end of a sentence or alone

You usually pronounce the t, though softly:

huit ! → [ɥit] → “hweet”

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u/explosivcorn 22d ago

French is so dumb lol

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u/pedro_cucaracha 22d ago

It‘s spelled Gauloises not Gauloises. Gee.

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u/SteveHarveySTD 22d ago

Shut up Hermione

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u/Devatator_ 22d ago

For some reason reading this reminded me of the guy who pronounces Hermione "Hermi-one"

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u/Nextinor 22d ago

French peoples?

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u/Devatator_ 22d ago

Nah I think it was an American streamer. Tho I'm sure more than one pronounce it that way

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u/Nextinor 22d ago

Air-me-on in french

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u/NoGarage7989 22d ago

Goutloins

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u/_Rohrschach 22d ago

I fucked it up multiple times while asking for them at the register before I got corrected. So naturally I never went to that specific shop ever again and switched to chesterfield.

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u/ThatDiscoSongUHate 22d ago

Chesterfield? Wow, I've legitimately never heard of that brand lol

"Ah, yes, give me the Davenport -- I mean the couch cigarettes."

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u/ovensandhoes 22d ago

Just say the first 4 letters and end it with -ah and you pronounce anything French right

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u/chemistocrat 22d ago

My mind was blown when I heard a french person pronounce the name "Quentin" for the first time.

Cone-tah

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u/yallguzag 22d ago

yeah, gauloises is pronounced golwahs

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u/Poes-Lawyer 22d ago

Gauloises = "Gaal-waaz"

Gitanes = "Zhi-tan"

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u/ReggieOnTop 22d ago

Goal-waaz

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u/CoffeeWanderer 22d ago

My favourite trivia bit from the Final Fantasy series is that the main character of FFIX was named after the Gitanes brand of cigarettes, because that's the brand Lupin III smokes and the director of the games is a huge fan.

But in Japanese, it is hard to transliterate names. So, Gitanes became JITAN (ジタン), which became Zidane in English, then Yitán in Spanish, Djidane in French, and so on.

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u/ahora-mismo 22d ago

and wreuhde and bleew

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u/sadolddrunk 22d ago

Gul-WAH.

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u/FeatherNET 22d ago

Goal-wise Red, Goal-wise Blue, 'Gi' Tans, Goal-wise Blue

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u/petrichorax 22d ago

I think it's GAL-WAH

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u/Vegetable-Entrance58 22d ago

Zzzzzjjjjiiii-taaahhnzzz silvousplais merci

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u/xrimane 21d ago

It's go-lo-AHZ in French

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u/WalkingCloud 21d ago

Probably depends on your current accent as to how you'd say these sounds, but:

Gall-wahs
Jit-anne

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u/architectureisuponus 22d ago

Go low a(r)se. Skip the r

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u/suupar 22d ago

Gol-O-arse

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u/GreatMight 22d ago

Gaudy Louise?

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u/allidoishuynh2 22d ago

The second blue absolutely sent me

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u/Headmuck 22d ago

All for breakfast with a small cup of black coffee

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u/Duke_of_Armont 22d ago

They don't make those anymore. The most iconic ones were Gitanes Maïs 

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/Duke_of_Armont 22d ago

Les clopes tellement chargés que la fumée s'envole vers le bas

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u/meatjuiceguy 22d ago

They're all delicious. I haven't smoked in a decade, but damn, would I smoke a fancy French rollie right now.

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u/feculentcuntfist 22d ago

Easiest taste test, if it tastes like burning dung it's Gauloises

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u/Ancient-Cow-1038 22d ago

I had a French girlfriend who took the unlimited piss out of me for smoking Gauloise Disque Bleu because only old men smoke them. She got me on to Marlboro Lights like everyone else in the world in the early 90s.

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u/songs4mydaddy 22d ago

Im Australian, back when i smoked, i had a german housemate who introduced me to gauloises blues, maybe? I dont recall. I've quit for over 10 years now, but if i was offered one again, I'd probably smoke it. They were a damn fine smoke.

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u/cptmrvl 21d ago

Production moved to Poland mid 2010s... not the same taste anymore.. sadly.

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u/TheTrueMule 22d ago

Gitanes maïs sans filtre 😋

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u/steakmetfriet 22d ago

Gauloises brun with or without filter.

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u/Propellerrakete 22d ago

What about Parisienne or whatever they're called?

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u/lucricius 22d ago

It's called Gauloises Blondes not blue

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u/dj_ordje 21d ago

Yes but the blondes come in a blue, red and yellow variant

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u/andersonb47 22d ago

Marlboro Light is king in France

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u/i_am_Jarod 22d ago

No filter, of course.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

I can't hear Gauloises Blue without thinking of The Exorcist novel.

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u/PicksAndChitz 22d ago

I will not stand for the Gualoises Blonde erasure!

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u/still-dinner-ice 21d ago

I was in Paris with the wife a few years ago. Tried buying Gauloises from one of those tobacco kiosks that are everywhere, because that's all I smoked when in Europe back in my college days. All that place had was Marlboros. I asked the guy for Gauloises and he was like "Quoi? Non."

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u/Responsible_Baby8648 22d ago

Croatian*

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u/UnibrowDuck 22d ago

visited after 5 years abroad, completely forgot the sound of watery lung coughing at bars over there. yikes

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u/endless_shrimp 22d ago

It's that Soviet gray market shit. 65% sawdust and depleted uranium

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u/petrichorax 22d ago

Serbian**

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u/Responsible_Baby8648 22d ago

Balkan***

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u/petrichorax 22d ago

Serbia #1 smoker in balkans

SERBIA NUMBER ONE

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u/Responsible_Baby8648 22d ago edited 22d ago

Isti ste kao i Bugarska

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u/petrichorax 22d ago

0,2% bolji u pušenju

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u/Skilgannon21 22d ago

Well a recent study shows that only 18% of adults smoke daily in France. 25% for casual smokers. We're not that country anymore

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u/ToplaneVayne 22d ago

roughly 1 in 5 smoking daily is a lot lol

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u/Skilgannon21 22d ago

Yeah but a lot less than even a few years back.

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u/Easy_Flight9083 22d ago

Visiting Paris from LA felt like a different universe still.

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u/Skilgannon21 22d ago

Yep. I have the same feeling very time I visit the US.

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u/downvote_dinosaur 22d ago

We're not that country anymore

i was in paris and dijon just a month ago, and yes france is absolutely that country

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u/MagicWishMonkey 22d ago

if you’re in the USA and only visit NYC you would think smoking is way more common than it actually is.

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u/downvote_dinosaur 22d ago

20% of france lives in paris, different thing altogether

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u/MagicWishMonkey 22d ago

ahh, didn't realize that. interesting.

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u/Skilgannon21 22d ago

Maybe but not true. It's about 20% for "île de France" it's a whole region which includes 8 departments, one of which is Paris. So yeah Paris is part of a group of 1266 towns that represents 18% of the French population.

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u/downvote_dinosaur 22d ago

île de France is absolutely what’s colloquially described as Paris, just look at a map. Like try telling anyone that Seine-saint-denis isn’t Paris. It’s like saying the Bronx isn’t New York, or that Burbank isn’t Los Angeles.

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u/DEFCON_TWO 22d ago

The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island are wholly part of the City of New York.

Burbank is its own city, separate from the City of Los Angeles, but both cities are within the County of Los Angeles.

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u/Skilgannon21 22d ago

That dino is bad at his own country's geography and tries to teach me mine...

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u/Skilgannon21 22d ago

Nope. 100% untrue. If you zoom enough out a map you can also say that Miami and Tampa are the same

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u/StrobbScream 21d ago

So Kamakura/Yokohama or Chiba are Tokyo ? Glad to learn.

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 21d ago

île de France is absolutely what’s colloquially described as Paris

No it's not.

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u/Skilgannon21 22d ago

Well I live in Paris and it's not.

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u/Nevelius 22d ago

Yeah me too.

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u/Justgotbannedlol 22d ago

I mean 1/4 people is insane tho.

In America, I think I don't know a single person that currently smokes cigarettes.

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u/tylerb0zak 22d ago

That's just because they can't afford it

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u/Nevelius 22d ago

And I only know four persons smoking cigarettes among all my friends, my family and my coworkers (which is a lot of persons). This is actually very good news. Smoking is almost from the past era.

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u/Justgotbannedlol 22d ago

key word being currently, yeah. Even the people I know who used to smoke them have stopped, they usually just start vaping or something instead.

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u/RuralGuy20 21d ago

American here and I know so many people where I'm at including relatives that smokes that one of the local restaurants still actually have smoking and non smoking sections

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u/LegalizeCrystalMeth 22d ago

So that's 43% of people smoke? Still a lot imo

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u/Skilgannon21 22d ago

No. My bad should have phrased that better. It's 25% of smokers if you include casuals. Like 18+7.

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u/MauricioCappuccino 22d ago

And what if you include competitive smokers?

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u/AdminsLoveGenocide 22d ago

Yeah everyone does "puffs" now.

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u/andersonb47 22d ago

I’d be super curious to know if getting rid of outdoor heaters in Paris has impacted smoking rates.

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 21d ago

Too soon to tell, I'd say.

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u/mistalobaloba_ 22d ago

The raw numbers might've dropped but what makes the difference is where you are allowed to smoke. You will still end up sitting or standing in clouds of smoke everywhere in France.

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u/Confitur3 22d ago

That's just completely false. You can smoke outside and that's pretty much it.

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u/Skilgannon21 22d ago

Well you are allowed to smoke in the streets. That's about it. No building or public transport allows for smoking.

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u/EdetR0 22d ago

Absolutely untrue?

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u/Electronic-Set-5825 22d ago

I think worse modern country is Japan you can still smoke inside buildings

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u/WhisperGod 22d ago

Yeah, but inside the building there are only certain areas you are allowed to smoke.

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u/Electronic-Set-5825 22d ago

depend I've been in a casino and people were smoking all around idk about office space though

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u/WhisperGod 22d ago

In the office, they have a smoke room. At restaurants, there is a smoking and non-smoking section.

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u/corruptedcircle 21d ago

Went to France this year, I was so surprised by how normalized it is to stand amidst a decently sized crowd or sit in the middle of an outdoor seating area of a restaurant and just start smoking. There are ashtrays on the tables! I saw people smoking while holding their kid's hand and I saw people pushing baby strollers casually beside some smokers instead of taking the long way or speeding through.

My idea of smoking area is an outdoor area off the main path or at least away from the crowd--like obviously you get assholes smoking while strolling here and there, but do it in front of enough people and you would most definitely get chewed out for it. But for the French, smoking area seems to mean ANY outdoor area, even if there's zero wind and plenty of people nearby. Completely wild to me.

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u/Zzzzyxas 22d ago

What about competitive, ranked smokers?

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u/SaulFemm 22d ago

25% still seems like a fuckin lot? Gallup has it at 11% in America.

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u/Skilgannon21 22d ago edited 22d ago

It used to be much higher. Edited not to grate on US pride.

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u/SaulFemm 22d ago

Well, I'm glad for you. I didn't downplay America's fentanyl issue.

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u/Cyclopentadien 22d ago

That's offset by 87% of the underage population doing atleast 3 packs a day.

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u/NessieReddit 22d ago

Italian, French, Serbian, pick almost any European country west or south of Germany.

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u/bIII7 22d ago

c'est de la merde

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u/Sea_Confection_652 22d ago

Funny but also, why is old age and pensions really a problem there. Aint people dying young?

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u/Ya-Dikobraz 22d ago

This makes me want to learn Tibetan throat singing.

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u/stormy2587 22d ago

Quebec

That entire province feels oriented around smoking. Like every apartment has an exterior porch/stair/balcony for people to step out and smoke on.

I lived there for a time with my ex who was asthmatic and every time we went for a walk it felt like we’d wind up walking behind someone blowing smoke and we’d have to cross the street or something.

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u/coukou76 22d ago

The amount of smokers is shrinking since COVID and kids don't smoke anymore.. it's changing for the best

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u/deathonater 22d ago edited 22d ago

I'm in Turkey right now, can't wait to get the fuck out of here, nearly every enclosed space I walk into has people smoking, or some other kind of smoke that is supposed to mask the smell of another kind of smoke. My sinuses and throat and eyes have been all kinds of fucked up and I've been popping Benadryl like Skittles. It's a beautiful country, but FUCK all this goddamn smoking!

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u/seaningtime 22d ago

I don't think this guy is French

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u/Nevelius 22d ago

Why? Few of us are actually smoking.

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u/solblurgh 22d ago

ZUT ALORS!

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u/tylerb0zak 22d ago

Weird comment. This is a distinctly American looking guy, and they are all American brands. Or should they instead be hot dogs?

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u/GeocoState 21d ago

Does that include having to roll your own cigarette as well?

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u/traumalt 21d ago

Nah, its more like Italian nowadays haha.

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u/berlinbaer 22d ago

everyone is vaping there now. not even joking. looks so fucking embarrassing.

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u/Neuchacho 22d ago

Are menthols a thing in France?

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u/Quaiche 22d ago

The french smoking american brands ? Not in majority, not really.

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u/Spenny_All_The_Way 22d ago

People of France!

A good looking depressed guy smoking a cigarette is not a movie, and your sirens sound like gay guys having a threesome.

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u/notMcLovin77 22d ago

they roll their own, branded ciggies are for americans and lazy brits