Smoking — Your Choice: Cancer or No Sex

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Channel: Rick Steves' Europe · 2011 · Travel & Events

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In Turkey, cigarette packages come not just with printed warnings, but with graphic photos making it clear — you lungs will turn black, your skin will wrinkle and turn yellow, you'll be imprisoned by your addiction, and you sex life will suffer. Macho Turkish men prefer the "smoking causes cancer" packs to the "smoking makes you impotent" ones.

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