[Michelle20586]

Some Muslims do smoke cigarettes, although the religion says you should not. In fact, that’s how I got started smoking during college. I hung around Middle Eastern students who would sit outside the cafeteria talking politics and smoking cigarettes. Most of the students were Muslims (Sunni and Shiite), some were Christian, Druze, etc. After college, I lived with a host family in Jordan. When visiting, often, the host/hostess would offer a basket filled with different brands of cigarettes. Culturally, it is frowned upon for women to smoke, but every now and then, once my host dad left for the mosque (he would usually be gone most of the day), my host mom would throw money down to one of the kids in the street to buy us cigarettes and the women would sit and talk and smoke (we would then have to get rid of the evidence before my host dad came home). None of this has anything to do with religion, though. I just think smoking is very popular in the Middle East, particularly for men.

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Name : Michelle20586, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 36, City : Las Vegas, State : NV, Country : United States, Occupation : Analyst, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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