SMOKING 2.0: HOW THE WORLD’S MOST HARMFUL HOBBY IS DIGITIZED

Many smokers started as teenagers and probably found it particularly cool to puff secretly in the bushes. The trend today is towards e-cigarettes, not because they are cooler, but because they hardly stink, are less harmful and more socially or even pub-compatible.

The Weimar Republic with its restaurants and nightclubs, such as the Moka Feit, revived in the crime series “Babylon Berlin”, has shaped smoking culture in Germany like no other era. At that time, many a fine lady with a Charleston dress and bob head lit a cigarette in Lasziv, stylishly on a long-stemmed filter, of course. In the trenches, the smoldering stalk was long regarded as a food for the soul. It also lasted unimaginably long in debates in the Bundestag, until September 2007 to be precise. But when you look at the TV footage from the old days, they were really fogged out in black and white.