If you are a non-smoker coming to Egypt, you will be hard pressed, better said "impossible" to find a non smoking restaurant, except inside McDonalds, or maybe other rare ones I have never seen. Smoking in taxis is common, and everywhere, even areas marked "no smoking" it is not unusual to see a ashtray full of butts below the sign.
Recently, cigarette taxes increased (news said 30%) meaning a Pack of Marlborugh (for example) went from 6 LE to 8 LE ($1.12 to $1.50 or UK 0.57 to 0.75).
Killer prices say what!!!!!!!!!!! And there are cheaper brands such as L&M and then the local brand Cleopatra at rock bottom price.
However, seems some government effort is coming in form of another tax hike and they will be putting danger pictures on the packages. One can tell when a rise in prices is coming because places selling cigs will not have popular brands available - only ones that are that are not popular here like Kent, Rothmans. Reason is, the middle men distributors hoard them so to make more profit by selling at higher price, even though they bought at old price.
A recent article in news explains the smoking popularity where stated 60% of males smoke in Egypt compared to 24% in USA. Don't know where they got these statistics but 60% only seems very low and then those that don't smoke cigarettes likely smoke shisha water pipes at the many coffee shops. See article at this LINK
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Egypt requires cash deposit for old foreign farts to marry young girls
A quote found in blog Posted in Politics by eideard on June 13th, 2008
The Egyptian authorities have banned a 92-year-old man from marrying a 17-year-old girl, the Egyptian al-Akhbar newspaper has reported. The ministry of justice invoked a law which says the age gap between spouses should not exceed 25 years.
Egypt brought in the law prohibiting the marriage of elderly men to very young girls during the Gulf oil boom. It was an effort to prevent wealthy men from the Gulf states seeking young poor brides from the Egyptian countryside.
In special cases, the justice ministry does allow foreign men to marry Egyptian women more than 25 years their junior if they deposit a very large sum of money in the name of their wife at the Egyptian National Bank…
173 such marriages were allowed in the past year after the foreign husband deposited a sum equivalent to about US $80,000 and was screened.
Since I qualify as an Old Fart, I resent laws supporting age-ism.
I certainly would never spend $80K to pick up a spare spouse in Egypt. Besides, my wife would fracking kill me.
The Egyptian authorities have banned a 92-year-old man from marrying a 17-year-old girl, the Egyptian al-Akhbar newspaper has reported. The ministry of justice invoked a law which says the age gap between spouses should not exceed 25 years.
Egypt brought in the law prohibiting the marriage of elderly men to very young girls during the Gulf oil boom. It was an effort to prevent wealthy men from the Gulf states seeking young poor brides from the Egyptian countryside.
In special cases, the justice ministry does allow foreign men to marry Egyptian women more than 25 years their junior if they deposit a very large sum of money in the name of their wife at the Egyptian National Bank…
173 such marriages were allowed in the past year after the foreign husband deposited a sum equivalent to about US $80,000 and was screened.
Since I qualify as an Old Fart, I resent laws supporting age-ism.
I certainly would never spend $80K to pick up a spare spouse in Egypt. Besides, my wife would fracking kill me.
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