CAIRO: A Saudi man who had asked to marry a local woman, abruptly changed his mind when she informed him she will be smoking the shisha water-pipe that is popular in the Middle East, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The young woman agreed to the marriage proposal, but stipulated the smoking clause. “She said that he must let her smoke shisha any time because she is allowed to smoke it at home,” Aljazeera's Arabic language newspaper said, in a report from Riyadh “The man refused … the girl's parents tried to resolve the problem but both stuck to their positions … the man then left the house and dropped the marriage idea.” There has been much documented study that indicates smoking one ‘head' of shisha, the amount of tobacco in the top, is the same as smoking two packs of cigarettes, as far as tar and nicotine intake goes.
