Outdoor cafes/restaurant terraces that allow smoking effectively are marketing to smokers. Smokers generally stay longer (therefore may order more), and basically are giving themselves dopamine at this venue, therefore creating associations to possibly draw them back in the future. These places could just not provide ashtrays and could just not allow smoking, but they do allow it, because it's good for business.
If you really don't like it, you could just not visit these establishments. To these businesses, the benefit of allowing smoking doesn't outweigh the negatives (some people not liking it). Obviously you don't not like it enough to just not go there. Not a smoker, but i've never understood this puritanical attitude towards smoking and only smoking. Yeah, it's not great to breathe in an enclosed space, but in an outdoor space, I don't see how much worse it is than car exhaust, air quality, etc.
moving from iphone to stock android is arguably a downgrade in regards to security & privacy. a rough rule of thumb is grapheneOS on a pixel (security & privacy) > stock ios (security, and at least their business model isn't openly selling your data) > stock pixel (security only, bad privacy) > stock android (not great on both fronts)
Japan and most of Europe do not really use iMessage (Japan uses LINE, Europe generally uses WhatsApp), so I'm not sure exactly how iPhone market dominance is relevant to the previous commenter's point.
a large chunk of Georgian territory is occupied by Russia, Abkhazia is one (which essentially functions as basically a breakaway state but is de facto russian controlled), and South Ossetia (which essentially functions as a de facto Russian oblast). That's probably the issue.
hadn't heard of this project before, but their github does include instructions on how to claim it even in a network-less dedicated docker container if you're truly paranoid.
I have to mention this every time I see it... The crowdfunding campaign mentioned in this article took place in "Colombia" not "Columbia." There is no country by the name of "Columbia." This problem is so aggravating to Colombians they even sell t-shirts in their airports that say "IT'S COLOMBIA NOT COLUMBIA"