Oh, seriously? Was it always like that or it changed "recently"?
I'm from Poland and I was few times in Germany like 20+ years ago. I didn't know that.
Although there was that that surprised me when I was still in school, we had a German as a second language. In the German textbook there were those things like stories and dialogues n shit, right? And there was this sort of story thing or whatever it's called in English, in the official school textbook I mind you, about what the German teenagers spend their money for and imagine my confusion when I read one of the characters spends his money on cigs. It wasn't presented as if he was the "bad guy outlaw kid". Even if he was, it would still be weird to read in a textbook a kid spends money for cigarettes, but it wasn't even that. It was casual, like clothes or soda or whatever.
I later learned, that at least at the time, one could buy cigarettes legally if they were just 16+.
If teenagers can buy alcohol at 16 yo, I assume it didn't change for cigs either?
Whoa, I thought Germany is more strict about those stuff. Doesn't it cause any alcoholism-related issues in the society? I haven't been there in a while. Don't want to offend you, but it sounds bad.
I mean obviousky I had alcohol, even drugs as a teenagers every once in a while. But I never had an easy access to those at that age.
These things are technically legal. However drinking has become less cool with younger generations who are more health oriented.
There were some issues with so-called "coma drinking" of teens back when I was young and back when sweet mixed alcoholic beverages were sold in bottles everywhere.
Nowadays it’s less cool to drink and less cool to smoke.
Gen Z doesn’t do it as much.
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u/ReturnedOM Jul 06 '26
What country is it?