(October 22, 2023 at 2:21 pm)emjay Wrote: The German word for smoking is rauchen and I can't think of a more apt word for it than that; to say it, it sounds just like my voice and my breathing sounded when I was smoking at my worst. A great word to practice the more awkward sounds of the German language... a rolling R and a loch-like ch... but otherwise a horrible word for a horrible thing that sounds just like its meaning, to me at least. That's all smoking will ever mean to me now... rauchen.
Sounds like a pretty good word for it.
I think younger people can easily overlook the future health consequences of smoking. It's easy to rationalize things away when the effects occur decades later.
If you were to look at my extended family, and what happened to the generation older than me, overwhelmingly what killed them was smoking, followed closely by drinking.
