Friday, December 30, 2022

Three German News Stories

 1.  Last night, I watched a 9:45 PM ARD (public TV, Channel One) update on smoking in Germany.  Apparently, in the past year, among German 14 to 17 year old kids.....the smoking rate has doubled (up to around 16-percent admit smoking regularly).

In the 18-to-24 year old group....it's now up to around 41-percent.

Why?  No one really has an explanation for this.  

2.  Food bank usage in the past year in Germany?  Doubled.  Up to around 2-million need a minimum of one visit a month. Recession has triggered the growth for the most part.

3.  If you wanted telegram service via Deutsche Post?  It ends on 1 Jan 2023.  They admit....it's just really rare that anyone sends one now. 

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