The wonders of Greece and Turkey
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Curiosity: the saying “Smoking like a Turk” Its origin is uncertain, the most probable dates back to the second half of the XVI century in which in Turkey ruled a Pasha who was very strict regarding the coffee and tobacco, which he consider were dangerous drugs. The coffee and tobacco consumers were harshly prosecuted (one of the expected punishments was cutting the nose…) and the coffe shops were destructed. Once the oppressor Pasha died, the Turks continued to drink coffee and to smoke, even excessively, as a reaction of the ban. Hence is the saying.
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