June 23, 2004

Iranian authorities are trying to extinguish one of the country's favorite pastimes, the smoking of hubble-bubble water pipes, whose apple and citrus tobaccos waft through most Persian restaurants [BBC news]. An Iranian woman puffs on a water pipe in a Tehran restaurant in this file photo taken October 26, 2003. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/file photo >>> Related photo

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