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Alaric.us: Of note might be the fact that I see very few old people around. They all died from lung and throat cancer
That's generally true, there are very few people in Europe who get older than 40.
Venereal disease is also rampant since people are so promiscuous, so you shouldn't get intimate with any European women unless you want a nasty rash.

And btw, please take care of yourself...there are lots of gangs targeting American tourists, selling them to organ traffickers (lungs are especially in demand in Europe because of all that smoking), or just to rich sadists. That Hostel movie was pretty accurate.
Post edited May 12, 2018 by morolf
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Alaric.us: Of note might be the fact that I see very few old people around. They all died from lung and throat cancer. Probably. This also possibly explains why europeans are willing to suffer the 50% tax rate for their “free” healthcare. Being poisoned every hour of every day, one is willing to put up with anything just to stay alive.
Almost 30% of Europeans smoke as compared to the almost 20% of American citizens, so this part of your pamphlet is certainly true, and I really don't dig it. However, the mortality rate for smoking induced lung cancer is a good bit higher in America than it is in Europe. This is explained by the fact that Americans are much heavier smokers than Europeans, who tend to be social smokers more often.

But possibly also by the fact that your health care sucks major balls, even though you spend much more than other developed nations on it. And that is the case because health care in the US is an entirely capitalist system, where your health is sold to you as a luxury product.

https://epianalysis.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/usversuseurope/


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tinyE: Reminds me of my mother. She asks a question and if she doesn't like the answer, she acts like she didn't hear it and proceeds to ask it again. This continues until she gets the answer she was looking for, regardless of whether or not there is any semblance of fact and or reality in it.
OH GOD MY FORMER BOSS DID THAT. Tell her to her face she does it. I've never been able to. I had to put it in a public employer review after I left. :P
Post edited May 12, 2018 by Vainamoinen
Funnily enough : Because Europe doesn't yet apply the same levels of "politically correct" restrictions and censorship around smoking representation in the medias as the Land Of The Free does. You know, stuff like Obama's 2009 Tobacco Bill. Still, the average life expectancy in Europe seems still higher than in the USA. Despite of how diverse "Europe" is.

The levels of irony in this thread are dizzying.
Post edited May 12, 2018 by Telika
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Alaric.us: Europeans smoke. Oh they smoke SO FUCКING MUCH!!!
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Vainamoinen: Almost 30% of Europeans smoke as compared to the almost 20% of American citizens
contrary to popular believe there are no Europeans :p, but Bulgarians, French, Danes, Greeks, Germans, etc (you get the idea)
and smoking habits vary wildly depending on where exactly you are( 8% - 27%)

[url=http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=File:Proportion_of_daily_smokers_of_cigarettes,_2014_(%25_persons_aged_15_and_over).png]http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=File:Proportion_of_daily_smokers_of_cigarettes,_2014_(%25_persons_aged_15_and_over).png[/url]

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seems the url is too complex for GOG to handle ...
Post edited May 12, 2018 by immi101
OP: Why hasn't anyone replied to my topic yet?





(Oh, yeah! I put them all on mute!)
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tinyE: I don't think you're a piece of crap, and if you really are on the Pitcairn Island, do you all try to fleece tourist with "Fletcher Christian was here" key chains and other garbage? :P
Sadly I am not on Pitcairn Island. I am in the middle of Europe but it is the same here as there. We try sell Fletcher Christian key chains to tourists on daily basis.
Me like you to come to visit. Me have some good offers for you.
That's it if you manage to find me through all that cigarette smoke that clouds our streets.
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Alaric.us: It seems like everyone, including families with small children, and pregnant women is in the process of a never-ending chain smoking orgy of revolting toxic destruction.
Everybody and everything smoke. Newborns, toddlers, statues, kitchen tables, and chimneys... you name it! Even animals smoke cigarettes nowadays. One day, an earthworm had the audacity to ask me for a cigarette. Unbelievable.
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Alaric.us: It seems like everyone, including families with small children, and pregnant women is in the process of a never-ending chain smoking orgy of revolting toxic destruction.
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Cambrey: Everybody and everything smoke. Newborns, toddlers, statues, kitchen tables, and chimneys... you name it! Even animals smoke cigarettes nowadays. One day, an earthworm had the audacity to ask me for a cigarette. Unbelievable.
HE AIN'T LYING!
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Alaric.us: It seems like everyone, including families with small children, and pregnant women is in the process of a never-ending chain smoking orgy of revolting toxic destruction.
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Cambrey: Everybody and everything smoke. Newborns, toddlers, statues, kitchen tables, and chimneys... you name it! Even animals smoke cigarettes nowadays. One day, an earthworm had the audacity to ask me for a cigarette. Unbelievable.
I did even catch my printer smoking today.

No joke.
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Alaric.us: Europeans smoke. Oh they smoke SO FUCКING MUCH!!! the bastards don't smoke in churches. Overall, the whole thing is disgusting in the extreme
Welcome to earth, where everyone does drugs and stinks. Were you expecting a higher quality of humans on your budget trip to affordable areas in affordable accommodations? That might have been a bit much to ask for.
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Alaric.us: I’ve been touring Europe for the past few weeks. I’m generally enjoying my trip and have seen quite a few spectacular sites, priceless pieces of art, etc. There is one problem, however, that makes it difficult to have an altogether good time.

Europeans smoke. Oh they smoke SO FUCКING MUCH!!! It seems like everyone, including families with small children, and pregnant women is in the process of a never-ending chain smoking orgy of revolting toxic destruction. Every street, every restaurant, every hotel room, every car either reeks of smoke or has traces of it. I was only able to escape it in remote corners of parks, where there was no one at all. Oh and in churches, the bastards don't smoke in churches. Overall, the whole thing is disgusting in the extreme. I feel I will need to have a transplant of both my lungs as soon as I return to the states.

Of note might be the fact that I see very few old people around. They all died from lung and throat cancer. Probably. This also possibly explains why europeans are willing to suffer the 50% tax rate for their “free” healthcare. Being poisoned every hour of every day, one is willing to put up with anything just to stay alive.
I'm always ducking as they shoot smokers in Australia and if they miss, they certainly don't miss the pocket (tax wise).It costs an arm and a leg for smokes down here but that's life.
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Alaric.us: FUCКING
I mean, this thread isn't gonna go anywhere decent and all, but are we just gonna ignore that Alaric lowkey snuck past the forum's lazy profanity filter by using a Cyrillic letter instead of a K?
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Alaric.us: FUCКING
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zeogold: I mean, this thread isn't gonna go anywhere decent and all, but are we just gonna ignore that Alaric lowkey snuck past the forum's lazy profanity filter by using a Cyrillic letter instead of a K?
How the hell do you notice this stuff!? XD

Jesus, you really are "The Puzzlemaster".
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Alaric.us: Europeans smoke. Oh they smoke SO FUCКING MUCH!!!
Are they on fire?


More seriously the tobacco isn't going to be THAT bad for you, no it's all the other additives. I also have a theory smoking was picked up long ago in order to act as a bug repellent (bugs hate smoke and they hate tobacco).

As for why so many of them smoke? Hmmm better cigs? More advertising? Peer pressure? I don't know. For some it's a ritual. I know my mom said she used to smoke, and it was a form of stress control. Like any other addiction, it's actually a symptom of something else that's wrong and not smoking itself.
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Alaric.us: This also possibly explains why europeans are willing to suffer the 50% tax rate for their “free” healthcare.
As we know, nothing is free. If you get 'free' games with your service that costs you $30 a month, is that 'free'? Not really...

Also with Charlie Gard and more recently Alfie Evans where your health care can be denied you.... I wonder if their system will stay up much longer.
Post edited May 13, 2018 by rtcvb32
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immi101: contrary to popular belief there are no Europeans :p, and smoking habits vary wildly depending on where exactly you are( 8% - 27%)
Of course there "are" Europeans. Just as there are Bulgarians (35% smokers), French (28%), Danes (18%), Germans (25%), or Greeks (37%, the highest percentage in all of Europe). It just irks us when someone lumps 50 countries together in order to make broad generalizing (and sometimes false) statements about 750 million people. Yet statements about 220 million "Americans", which are spread amongst a country just as spacious as Europe, are hardly less generalizing. The West Virginians hit 24.8% smokers in their population, Utah only 10.6%. A comparison between Europe and the US can still explain the huge drop of smoking prevalence across the ocean – as well as the still higher mortality in the US despite absurd per capita health care spendings. These statistics can provide an answer to the question Alaric has asked, though the question was of course neither asked in good faith, nor will he like the answer or to have his false presuppositions corrected. :|

Still, I'd love to know what European country or even city Alaric has visited. There's a marked spike in consumption towards Eastern Europe. The data on e.g. Serbia and Russia is just OMG.

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rtcvb32: Are they on fire? [...]

More seriously the tobacco isn't going to be THAT bad for you, no it's all the other additives. I also have a theory smoking was picked up long ago in order to act as a bug repellent (bugs hate smoke and they hate tobacco).
Man, YOU'RE on fire these days. Seriously, it's incredible how you're pooping pseudo-scientific nonsense and hilarious conspiracy stuff into every single thread. It's really, really impressive how you sometimes even make up those "theories" yourself without even once checking the facts.

First of all, a cigarette that says "100% additive free" on the package is still made with additives (oddly fitting they call the most heinously misleading brand of cigarettes in the US "Natural American Spirit"). Second, home grown tobacco which definitely has no chemical additives still has 40+ known carcinogens. Statistically, the "all natural" stuff does not even pose a marginally lower risk. Totally, absolutely, without doubt, all evidence says, it can not be denied that YES, the tobacco itself IS going to be THAT bad for you.

Evidence for your "theory" does not exist. All animals "hate smoke" because it means fire for them. We've been trained to ignore that direct connection to imminent danger by smoking (but we still trick our brain when we light a match after pooping. We tell ourselves we "light up" the methane when in fact we're just introducing a new smell that simply blocks out the fecal odor because it ranks highest on the brain's list of olfactory warning signs). The amount of smoke you have to generate to actually make bugs flee is of course tremendous. Think forest fire, not cigarette smoke. As to the idea that bugs hate tobacco itself, well, tell that to the tobacco budworms, tobacco hornworms, tobacco flea beetles, granulate cutworms, stink bugs, cabbage loopers, mole crickets, whitefringed beetles and all the other insects who feed on tobacco leaves.

Smoking was picked up 4000-5000 years ago in shamanistic and other rituals for its intoxicating effects. It spread because it is addictive as fuck.
Post edited May 13, 2018 by Vainamoinen