Bitte, nicht zu rauchen!

It's a bit surprising how many people in Europe still smoke tobacco. It's everywhere, to a degree that flies in the face of the conventional wisdom about relative education levels and standards of living that we're used to hearing. Here in Germany you even see cigarette vending machines, the stuff of only legends and antique stores back in the States!

One suspects that, much like alcohol, it's a product that's almost too lucrative to suppress, aside from its traditional social status in cosmopolitan climes. Still, it's a bit of an anachronistic shock coming from cities in the big, bad USA where clean, potent and tightly regulated cannabis is available on practically every corner in certain areas.

Is it too crazy to imagine a future of cannabis vending machines, instead of cancer subscription kiosks like this one? Time to get on board with the future, methinks!