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me smoking. Smoking and Cigarettes in Egypt Some people divorce due to
irreconcilable differences, others on adultery. But imagine ...
... Then when I was 15 my stepfather caught me smoking. I had somehow managed to
hide my smoking from my parents for two years. My stepfather ...
... will never be able to stop. This factor in my opinion has the biggest influence
on me smoking. The last factor is the enabling factor ...
... other person in charge or control. To me smoking is the world's dirtiest
habit. There's just something about sticking tobacco rolled ...
... I suppose the lack of parental supervision made me start smoking. Even ...
The best solution for me was to start smoking again. When ...
Submitted by kristinnesays on May 25, 2008
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Smoking and Cigarettes in Egypt
Some people divorce due to irreconcilable differences, others on adultery. But imagine being able to divorce your husband based solely on the grounds of his habit of smoking. Hard to believe, but this is quite possible in Egypt. In 2000, a fatwa was issued legitimizing divorce based on having a spouse who smokes. What exactly has caused the country to authorize such a decree in regards to smoking? In the Middle East and North Africa, Egypt has the highest consumption rate of cigarettes, smoking over 46,000 million cigarettes in 1999 alone (Economics of Tobacco in Egypt). Cigarettes and smoking in Egypt is like the sands of the Sahara, the both are inescapable and many smoke cigarettes as early as the age of 15. While the United States was experiencing a decline in the consumption of cigarettes in 1999, Egypt experienced an increased in consumption (tobacco education). What are the reasons behind this enormous smoking trend in Egypt? In Relli Shechter’s, Smoking, Culture, and Economy in the Middle East: The Egyptian Tobacco Market 1850-2000, he explains the reasoning behind the massive exploit of tobacco in Egypt as well as the country’s citizens’ motivation in smoking. Shechter’s book is broken down into three parts. The first describes the introduction of tobacco into the Ottoman Empire, in which Egypt was apart of. Then he illustrates the growing market of the Egyptian cigarette and the course it took towards becoming a product sold only nationally but also globally. Because of this profitable market in the tobacco industry, the cigarette became a staple for the upper class citizens. The second part of his book focuses more on the economic perspective of the tobacco market in Egypt. It describes the supply and demand relationships between consumers and producers in the market and how the government influences the condition of it as well. Finally, the last and third part of Shechter’s book...
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