European observers noted that "most Iranians would rather forego bread than tobacco, and the first thing they would do at the breaking of the fast during the month of Ramadan was to light their pipes."
有歐洲人稱「大部分伊朗人寧願不吃麵包也要吸食煙草，他們在齋戒月破曉時分的第一件事就是點燃煙斗」。