Originally Posted by Ebola

I don’t know how to tell you this Rick - but you’re just flat out wrong. The data doesn’t back up what you’re saying and neither does my experience. We’re both talking about the same thing I assume ? First world western democracies right ? Use the list in the attached article for a starting point. A forty year old Air France pilot isn’t sitting in a smoky bar on the Marseilles wharf huffing cigarettes.

To your last point - I’ve lived in four of them, and I don’t mean living and working out of a U.S. base with a PX. That's not the same thing. You’re in a bubble.