Sunday, February 12, 2012

Anti-smoking campaign offers free wedding for one lucky quitter

(Washington Post) UPDATED 2009-06-29
A charity in Saudi Arabia is offering a free all-expense paid wedding as the grand prize in a stop-smoking campaign that is garnering worldwide attention. The charity--called Purity--will draw the grand prize from a list of men who have successfully completed a one-week stop-smoking course. Experts say the campaign is proving popular, since in much of the Arab world, men alone bear the burden of a lavish wedding party, a dowry, and a fully-furnished house.
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