r/AskReddit • u/danielsoft1 • 9h ago

"those little differences" Americans who visited Europe, what was surprisingly different for you?

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u/ElGringoConSabor 9h ago

The amount of smoking

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u/OmniBeats 8h ago

Bro stop crying

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u/JellyBellyBitches 7h ago

Crying? The question was what they noticed different, and they said smoking. What are you talking about, crying?

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u/Complex_Dot_4754 8h ago

nah he s right, and i say this as a european. smoking is completely out if hand, uncivilised and ridiculous in Europe in almost all countries…

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u/gahd95 8h ago

In Denmark there are very few smokers. Have not noticed a big difference in Sweden or Norway neither.

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u/Complex_Dot_4754 7h ago

unfortunately denmark and sweden are a very small part of european population. try the netherlands, germany, france or italy. all full of smokers… 

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u/vacuumdiagram 7h ago

I noticed it going from UK to France.

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u/Rugkrabber 5h ago

The Netherlands is not bad at all. Unless you went to the Randstad but outside of it? I mean at my job alone already, only 1 smoker of 68 workers.

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u/Complex_Dot_4754 5h ago

in my job i have around 20 direct and indirect reports in amsterdam and 7 or so smoke and many other colleagues from other departments. some of those colleagues are from noord-brabant and gelderland so not really the randstad. i studied there for some years and half of the class smoked of around 40 students and at that time you could still smoke inside the bars (uva), studied there spanish on the vu (evening course) around the quarter of the class smoked, and i work there on and off (benelux, west europe region functions, etc) for over a decade (rotterdam, zuidas, hoofddorp, bijlmer) etc. so maybe where you live and work this isn’t the case, but please don’t tell me that in the netherlands it is not that bad. it is as bad as my time when i worked in paris, lisbon, brussels or munich. really a terrible habit. instead of the cars they should tax more smoking…