In this file photo taken on October 02, 2018 a man is seen exhaling smoke from an electronic cigarette in Washington, DC.
- The number of patients suffering from probable lung injury cases associated with e-cigarette use has surged to 1,080, US health authorities said Thursday, while the death toll from the outbreak now stands at 18.
Like Western feminists of the early 20th century, in an era of social change in Saudi Arabia some women are embracing cigarettes, shisha pipes or vaping as a symbol of emancipation. Women are now allowed to drive, attend public sporting events and concerts, or obtain passports without the approval of a male guardian.
The only woman lighting up amid several tables of male smokers, she said she intended to “challenge society” and ignore the occasional dirty looks. “Most of our women clients order shisha. It’s something that was totally unimaginable just three months ago,” a Lebanese waiter told AFP at an up-market cafe in north Riyadh.
In 2018, authorities arrested at least a dozen women activists just before the historic lifting of the decades-long ban on female motorists.
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