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Jump to full article: AOL News, 2010-07-20
Author: Sarah A. Topol Contributor
Intro: A Hamas Interior Ministry official has clarified a new prohibition on women smoking flavored tobacco through a water pipe. An AOL News story on July 16, citing proprietors in Gaza City, reported that Hamas officials had informed them that shisha smoking by women was banned in restaurants across the Gaza Strip.
The ban is "just on the beach," ministry spokesman Ihab Al-Ghussein said. "All the other places it's not a problem, just the beach is forbidden."
Why the beach?
"We received many complaints from families about their children seeing some women smoking," he said. "It's a social tradition for us. So after we received the complaints, we said they should stop that. If they want that, they should go to some closed places or cafeterias."
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