I picked up this matchbook earlier this summer when I was visiting Croatia.  There is still a fair amount of smoking is this country, and it is not looked down on as much as it is elsewhere.  Since many of the restaurants where we ate were outdoors, it didn’t seem too overwhelming, however it was still an adjustment.
These matchbooks were picked up at a little corner store in Cavtat, a town on a bay just south of Dubrovnik.  Matchbooks weren’t available for FREE restaurants or bars, they were sold in local shops.  They cost about 10 kuna, which is …read more

In the “what will they come up with next” category, NJOY (among other companies) has developed an electronic smoking device. 
It runs on batteries or USB, and looks like a cigar, cigarette, or pipe, and is designed to simulate real smoking.  It looks like, smells like, tastes like the real thing, right down to the glowing tip that makes it look like it’s burning.  There’s even a vapor that looks like smoke.
I haven’t seen these on a flight yet, but they are cropping up more frequently these days. 
A quick, informal, and non-scientific poll of my Flight Attendant friends …read more