Ghanaian musician Camidoh has strongly defended his smoking habit, suggesting that it might not be inherently harmful.

He argues that “not everything that is portrayed as negative is negative.”

When asked to give a definitive answer on whether smoking is bad, he said, “If it’s bad for you, it is bad for you. The doctors have to detect that.”

He continued, “Generally, they say we shouldn’t smoke because it’s bad for our lungs. How about our parents who have been cooking kenkey? You see them when they are making kenkey, you see how smoky it gets?

I just want to tell you, you don’t have to dwell on that… It is not bad in my eyes because I’m telling a story,” he said.