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Turks Cling to Their Cigarettes
Topic Started: Jun 7 2018, 08:16 (9 Views)
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ISTANBUL - The Italians have a saying for it: "Fuma come un turco," meaning, "He smokes like a Turk."

There are actually plenty of people who smoke more than the Turks, but there are times when a visitor here may find that hard to believe.

The famous Istiklal Avenue, one of the world's most appealing pedestrian spaces with its cobbled pavement and little red trams clacking down the middle, bells dinging, can be covered over on a crowded weekend night by an inescapably dense, mile-long cloud of secondhand smoke, hovering between the elegant, tall buildings on either side.

Along dusky alleyways in Kadikoy, the trendiest part of Istanbul, on the once less Cigarettes Wholesale fashionable Asian side of the Bosporus, cafes typically have a few tables inside and Carton Cigarettes many more outside - where smoking is allowed. On even the coldest days, the outside tables are crowded, smokers kept warm by overhead heaters and lap blankets provided at each chair.

That prospect is greeted with horror in the cafes. "If there's such a law, we'll have to close down," said a waiter named Okan, at a hip bar in Kadikoy. (He asked that the bar not be named, as there were not only smoking scofflaws inside, but Che Guevara posters and hammer-and-sickle logos too.) "We don't want to get shut down."

Turkey has made tremendous efforts to counteract its reputation - and its smoking habit - with measures that are nearly as strict as those in any Western country, and far stricter than those found Marlboro Red Cigarettes in most developing societies. It has outlawed smoking in public places, not only inside restaurants but also outside government buildings, and even banned it above decks on the innumerable ferry boats plying the Bosporus.
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