Al-Marsad Newspaper: Artist Khaled Al-Rifai revealed the nature of his serious illness due to smoking, indicating that he used to smoke 80 cigarettes a day.
He said during an interview with the “Yahla” program broadcast on the Gulf Rotana channel: “I went to a private hospital, and the doctors told me that I had cancer, and following conducting the analysis it was found that I did not have cancer, but I suffer from a lack of oxygen.” In it, because oxygen is not delivered quickly, and this is all because of smoking.”
He added: “I used to smoke 80 cigarettes a day, and I stopped smoking 4 and a half years ago, but until now I still suffer from the disease.”