In the footage, Sarkodie is seen maintaining an unwavering composure as Kumasi-based rapper Jay Bahd lights up a luxurious Cubano cigar, captivating viewers and sparking online discussions.

The video, which quickly gained traction across various social media platforms, showcased Sarkodie’s ability to exude a sense of calmness, even in the midst of controversy.

As Jay Bahd confidently ignited the Cuban cigar, Sarkodie remained steady, unfazed by the smoky spectacle unfolding before him.

Sarknatives wasted no time in expressing their awe and admiration for Sarkodie’s cool demeanour, with many commending him for his ability to effortlessly steal the spotlight in any situation.

While some praised Sarkodie’s ability to embrace luxury and indulge in smoking the finer things in life, others questioned the message it conveyed and its impact on the younger generation.

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According to him, he was asthmatic, adding that, his health condition gave him the pass to smoke medicinal cigarettes anytime he wanted.

Talking further, he said it prevented him from being bullied because some of the bad boys in the school became friends with him.

I got to Mfantsipim when I was nine and the beauty of being that little is that everyone protects you so no one bullies you. I was so small they didn’t touch me.

And in those days, I was quite asthmatic and I’m still asthmatic, one of the medications was asthma cigarettes that you inhale and that sort of helps clear the system. So I became the favourite even to some of the bad boys in school, he said.

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So they would come to me occasionally in the hope that if they are caught smoking they will show it that they are allowed. I was the only one who had authorisation to smoke in school. I became their friends because they needed me, Mr Tsikata said.

He also explained that, his stature and age also prevented him from being bullied since most of the seniors liked him.

It was a fantastic situation for me because I was mentored by older people. The seniors took care of me not only in health but they were interested in my development. My mates were about 12…, he told KSM.

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1. Doing it high once makes you wanna do it high a lot more times. An in-depth, qualitative study from the Archives of Sexual Behavior on how alcohol and weed affect sex found that some couples say crave “more sex after the first sexual episode on marijuana.” Or in other words, they so enjoyed sex on weed that they want to keep having sex on weed.

2. It can get your 😎 vagina 😎 high. In this, our modern world, weed lube exists. If you’re reading this post, you have probably heard of it. But if not: Welcome. Produced by a company called Foria, the lube is totally legal (if you live in California or Colorado) and contains THC oil — the active ingredient in marijuana that gets you high. One Cosmo writer described the vagina-high feeling as “a mellow high that felt like a warm and very sexual hug.”

3. It might make your hornier. According to New York Magazine, ancient texts commonly refer to weed as an aphrodisiac. Lester Grinspoon, a retired Harvard Medical School professor known as “the grandfather of modern medicinal cannabis research,” told NY Mag that weed has the propensity to “enhance a variety of human experiences,” one being ~sexual~ experience. One 26-year-old said weed’s relaxing effects make her super horny, and said sex on weed is “akin to vacation sex.” VACATION SEX. The holy grail of all sex.

4. Also, it might make your orgasms more intense and long-lasting. One straight guy told NY Mag that pot tends to make time move more slowly for him, which also means brief things seem to last longer. “Orgasms seem to last for 30 seconds and are incredibly intense,” he said. “The best orgasms I’ve ever had have been while stoned, whether with another person or solo.”

5. Sex might feel like it’s lasting way longer… When asked, guys generally say smoking marijuana before boning increases their sexual stamina and helps them last longer.

6. But preliminary studies suggest it actually makes it harder for dudes to… stay hard. The thing about being high is that *you’re high*. Contextualizing time isn’t exactly a strong suit for stoned people. “While the conclusion that marijuana helps guys last longer in bed is tempting, we cannot rule out the possibility that this drug simply alters men’s perception of time,” Justin Lehmiller, a sex educator and researcher at Ball State University, wrote in Playboy. “Sex might seem to last longer when you’re high, but the actual amount of time you spend having sex might not really be any different from when you’re sober.”

7. It’ll spark your appetite for some sexy, post-coital Doritos. The munchies are real, folks. What’s more intimate than feeding each other piping hot Totinos pizza rolls in bed? Forget brunch and dinner — snack is the most romantic meal of the day.

8. And it ALSO might make you attracted to people you’re not usually into. Some participants in that big, qualitative study on weed and sex said their partners look “more attractive” when they’re high.”When I’m high … the people I’m attracted to, I’m not at all attracted to sober,” a 22-year-old woman said. “They should be called ‘weed goggles,’ because it’s much worse on marijuana than on alcohol.” If you’re not the sort of person who’s down to sober up and come to grips with the fact that you effed that weird dude who lives down the hall, this is probably a weed downside.

9. Being high can make it so hard to focus that you can’t even orgasm. Lol, this is kind of funny. But also 😰. Some women from the Archives of Sexual Behavior study have reported getting high makes it so hard to concentrate that they can’t quite reach orgasm. So you could be fucking forever to no (orgasmic) avail.

10. It might also make it hard for women to get “naturally lubricated.” Think about it. What is a side effect of smoking weed? Cottonmouth. If it’s capable of making your mouth feel like a desert, it’s probably also capable of making your vagina feel like a desert. Some woman from the qualitative study complained that being high didn’t make sex better because it just made it harder for them to get (and stay) “naturally lubricated.”

11. And if you overdo it, you may just skip sex altogether in favor of a nice long nap. Chelsea Cebara, a woman who teaches sex and cannabis workshops in Seattle, told ThrillIst that getting too high can backfire on your sex life in that it makes you too sleepy to have any. Don’t eat a whole pot brownie and then expect to feel horned up and ready to go. “Stay away from edibles unless you’re really sure how you’ll react, because if you end up at the wrong place your evening is negatively impacted,” she said.

Despite decades of tobacco control policies, population growth has seen an increased number of smokers, it warned.

Researchers said mortality could rise further as tobacco companies aggressively targeted new markets, especially in the developing world. The report was published in the medical journal The Lancet.

“Despite more than half a century of unequivocal evidence of the harmful effects of tobacco on health, today, one in every four men in the world is a daily smoker,” said senior author Dr Emmanuela Gakidou.

“Smoking remains the second largest risk factor for early death and disability, and so to further reduce its impact we must intensify tobacco control to further reduce smoking prevalence and attributable burden.”

The Global Burden of Diseases report was based on smoking habits in 195 countries and territories between 1990 and 2015. It found that nearly one billion people smoked daily in 2015 – one in four men and one in 20 women.

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That was a reduction from one in three men and one in 12 women who lit up in 1990.

However, population growth meant there was an increase in the overall number of smokers, up from 870 million in 1990.

And the number of tobacco-related deaths – more than 6.4 million in 2015 – increased by 4.7% over the same period.

The study found some countries had succeeded in efforts to help people quit, mostly through a combination of higher taxes, warnings on packages and education programmes.

Over the 25-year period, Brazil had seen the percentage of daily smokers drop from 29% to 12% among men and from 19% to 8% among women.

But, the report said, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines saw no change from 1990 to 2015.

Russia saw smoking among women rise by 4% over the same period and similar trends were emerging in parts of Africa, the authors warned.