Comment by PaulHoule

I lived in Dresden in 1998-1999 and was kinda shocked that they had cigarette vending machines outside like

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/cigarette-vending-machine-...

I don't see it in any of those photos but they often used to have candy vending machines for kids mounted underneath them.

I went to Poland (where my grandfather came from) and boy did the people there really seem to smoke a lot.