Re: Survey Finds U.S. Leads World in Substance Abuse
 

I also have trouble believing that America leads the world in smoking, at least per capita. While I've never been there, all I've ever heard from people is that when they spend time in Europe smoking is much more of an issue than here.

Re: Survey Finds U.S. Leads World in Substance Abuse
 

[QUOTE=firstdown;454928]Or maybe they wanted to make it look like the US is just a bunch of dumb smoking drug ussers.[/QUOTE]

Or, they wanted us to look like people who know how to party.

Re: Survey Finds U.S. Leads World in Substance Abuse
 

[QUOTE=Daseal;454941]I also have trouble believing that America leads the world in smoking, at least per capita. While I've never been there, all I've ever heard from people is that when they spend time in Europe smoking is much more of an issue than here.[/QUOTE]

I spent a month in China a few years back and I think every man there smoked. It was astounding how much smoking there was. Not a single woman though.

Re: Survey Finds U.S. Leads World in Substance Abuse
 

How'd you like China, SS. I've always wanted to travel to that area of the world (China, Japan, Korea, etc) but not sure if I'll ever get to. We're folks friendly, were you able to communicate?

Re: Survey Finds U.S. Leads World in Substance Abuse
 

[QUOTE=Daseal;454949]How'd you like China, SS. I've always wanted to travel to that area of the world (China, Japan, Korea, etc) but not sure if I'll ever get to. We're folks friendly, were you able to communicate?[/QUOTE]

I loved it. I went with my cousins on one of these tours

[url=http://www.rim-pac.com/chinatours.html]RIM-PAC International - China Tours.[/url]

I think we went on the Traditional China tour. We went in June 2001 when it was a bit nicer to fly and travel abroad. We had a tour guide with us each day. The tour was from 9a to 6p and then at night we had our own time to explore the city we were in at the moment.

Communicating was tough but part of the fun I suppose. When we were on our own we had dictionaries to get by. But they were pretty useless.

Re: Survey Finds U.S. Leads World in Substance Abuse
 

If you compare US tobacco use to any Asian country it's not even close. It's like the 1950's over here. People smoke in stores.