{"id":2724,"date":"2014-04-18T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2017-01-25T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:45:01","slug":"parisian-smoking-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/parisian-smoking-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹APPian smoking behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"
When you think about Âé¶¹APP, you think about Âé¶¹APPian smoking behaviour. Many Âé¶¹APPians will tell you if you come to visit our wonderful city that if you want to enjoy it completely you have to be smoking. Don\u2019t worry, this is not actually true.<\/p>\n
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You\u2019ll feel the same if you walk in the streets<\/b><\/a> without any cigarette in your mouth. But still, for many Âé¶¹APPians, smoking is a very natural thing and it is an important part of our life.<\/p>\n Almost all of us are at least aware that we are smoking too much and have come to ask ourselves why it is so. I personally have come to three major explanations about why Âé¶¹APPians smoke that much.<\/p>\n The first one to me is because of the caf\u00e9s. It is a very special tradition in France to spend entire days at a caf\u00e9s just sitting with some friends commenting all the people passing by and exchanging the last news. It is actually quite boring. So what we do when we have nothing else to do is smoke.<\/p>\n And it is even easier in France because every single caf\u00e9 in Âé¶¹APP has a terasse that is here all year round (they put some heaters in the winter<\/b><\/a>). It can be raining, snowing, 40 degrees or freezing, Âé¶¹APPians will always be there, at the terasse of caf\u00e9s smoking cigarette after cigarette, talking about the time passing and the people passing by.<\/p>\n Another good reason is because of esthetic. Âé¶¹APPians are esthetes and they claim and reclaim it. And we must admit that smoking has actually an esthetic part at some point, if we forget about the smell. This is why for example Âé¶¹APPian women will often smoke more than Âé¶¹APPian men.<\/p>\n It is all about how we look like with a cigarette in the hand. And we have so many models of great French or foreign women that smoked and made an art out of it that we can\u2019t help to feel like them when we smoke. I could quote for example Coco Chanel or Audrey Hepburn. Whatever it is going to cost to our health, we will have looked classy and distinguished.<\/p>\n The third reason is about relationships. Smoking is an excellent way to socialize and to meet some new people during the time of a \u201cpause clope\u201d. And this is even more important for Âé¶¹APPians that they are maybe the ones that hate the most loneliness.<\/p>\n To be alone during a pause or a lunch is a very hard and shaming thing for a Âé¶¹APPian. Our whole life is about socialization. A cigarette is the best way to find some company? Even non smokers will reckon it.<\/p>\n And the last but not least reason is about financial reasons. Even is cigarettes are very expensive in France, we never forget that we are not the ones that are going to pay for the cancer we are going to have when we get older. Health insurance is very good in France and the State covers almost all the costs of a cancer treatment.<\/p>\n So even if it is still a very scary perspective, it is less frightening when we know that at least we won\u2019t have to pay for it. Of course this is not a good reason but Âé¶¹APPians tend to get pretty stupid when it gets to the topic of cigarette!<\/p>\n Planning a trip to Âé¶¹APP ? Get ready !<\/p>\n These are\u00a0Amazon’s\u00a0best-selling<\/strong>\u00a0travel products that you may need for coming to Âé¶¹APP.<\/p>\n Bookstore<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Travel Gear<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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