[stephen_g]

Lots of people use coffee (cafe culture) for that here in Australia, which has the benefit of actually slightly reducing all-cause mortality.

I pop out at least once a day for a coffee break away from our work building, often with a coworker or two. I try to basically never get a takeaway, it’s so much better to pause and have a real worm break sitting at the cafe.

[gumby]

The thing about the cigarette rituals is that they were at a higher resolution: you'd sit in a cafe with a cup of coffee talking to someone and the smoking rituals silently punctuated the conversation itself.

Essentially, the language has changed!