Love Killer Zigis: Research shows that smokers are more likely to be rejected on dating apps

The days when smoking was considered sexy are long gone. A healthy lifestyle with no or only moderate consumption of tobacco and alcohol is popular nowadays, especially among the younger generation. The growing online dating market with apps like Tinder, Bumble, Grindr and more expensive services like Parship or C-Date has repeatedly raised the question of whether smoking is detrimental to your love life.

New findings now indicate that smokers may find it more difficult to find a partner than they did a few years ago. A survey conducted just under four years ago by the German company Parship showed that the vast majority of singles overlooked the “smoking vice” when they first met. Now, however, a recent study by Swiss dating app Dua shows that smoking clearly harms your love life.

Accordingly, smokers receive 52.7 percent fewer matches than nonsmokers. A match is when two people like each other’s profile and “like” each other. People who don’t smoke or don’t indicate this in their profile are clearly more likely to get to know someone. The results for women are even clearer: smokers get 63.6 percent fewer online dating matches than non-smokers.

“Although the results confirm what many already suspect, the statistics are still surprising and show that a healthy lifestyle not only increases well-being, but also has a positive impact on love life,” says Eduard Luta, spokesperson for Dua.com , the results.

The survey was conducted among approximately 460,000 users of Dua.com. The app, developed by a start-up of East Swiss entrepreneur Valon Asani, aims to connect people of the same origin and is particularly popular in the Albanian diaspora. (aargauerzeitung.ch)