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He was at the Tarantula Cafe drinking - and smoking - with his friend Gurkan Kurt, 26, an engineer. Mr. Kurt had quit smoking for three days, until he met up with Mr. Gungor on a recent Saturday. "Oh, well," he said. Government regulation is not the only obstacle faced by Turkish smokers, who are more than three times as likely to be men. "The women smoke less, and they're always pressuring us to quit smoking," Mr. Gungor said. Mr. Kurt does Marlboro Menthol Cigarettes not have that problem. "I don't tell them I smoke," he said. Like many other Turkish smokers, they do not dispute their country's nicotine-stained reputation. Barkan Karsh, a Turkish academic consultant who works in Macedonia, said people there not only use the "smokes like a Turk" expression, but they also use a Turkish word for tobacco, "tutun," as slang for a cigarette. Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story This is a bit rich, because Macedonia ranks fourth-highest among countries in per capita cigarette consumption, according to the Tobacco Atlas, published by an antismoking group, while Turkey is only 29th. "Even Macedonians say they should change 'smokes like a Turk' to 'smokes like a Macedonian,'" Mr. Karsh said. Cigarettes For Sale Online Somehow, it doesn't have quite the same Buy Cheap Cigarettes Online ring. "Actually it's kind of an urban legend that Turks smoke so much," Gokhan Bicici, a local journalist, said. "Especially younger people are smoking much less." He has a point. The Tobacco Atlas maintains that some countries consume more than twice as many cigarettes per person as Turkey, among them Montenegro (the world leader with 4,124 cigarettes consumed per adult annually), Belarus and Lebanon. Macedonia and Russia are nearly as bad. As for Italy, it's really not much better than Turkey. No. 34 among nations in Newport Carton smoking, Italians consume roughly the same number of cigarettes as Turks. According to World Health Organization data for Turkey and Italy, fewer adult Italians are smokers than adult Turks, but among young people, smoking rates are more than twice as high in Italy. Perhaps the expression should actually be, "Fuma come un italiano" (or, as they say in Turkish, "O bir Italyan gibi sigara iciyor"). |
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