{"id":1146660,"date":"2022-07-11T13:32:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/11\/if-men-can-smoke-and-take-shisha-women-too-should-be-allowed-to-do-same-songstress-iona\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:32:34","slug":"if-men-can-smoke-and-take-shisha-women-too-should-be-allowed-to-do-same-songstress-iona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/11\/if-men-can-smoke-and-take-shisha-women-too-should-be-allowed-to-do-same-songstress-iona\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If men can smoke and take shisha; women too should be allowed to do same&#8221; \u2013 Songstress iOna \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h3><strong>So long as males are permitted to smoke openly, women should be able to do the same. Females are being held to a different standard than their male counterparts in society, the singer said.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In addition to becoming a midwife, iOna Reine, born Mercy Sam, has always had a deep love for music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf men can smoke, then women should be able to smoke as well. This is not out of the blue. Haven\u2019t you seen women smoking Shisha and cigars in pubs before?\u201d she questioned Christian Agyei Frimpong on Onua FM\u2019s Anigye mmere entertainment and lifestyle show.<\/p>\n<p>iOna feels that Ghanaian culture sets unrealistic expectations on women. There\u2019s no restriction on what males may do.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe argument is not about whether smoking is bad or not. If it\u2019s bad, then it\u2019s bad for men and women. I don\u2019t understand why we set perimeters for girls while boys do all they want. If smoking is bad then it shouldn\u2019t be gender base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ghanaian culture is such that if a woman asks for sex, she\u2019s branded a bad girl. Those standards for women are wrong. If a man can smoke, a woman too can smoke,\u201d iOna emphasized.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"QyFAuTf_h-I\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sarkodie should stop sm0king publicly, he&#039;s a role model\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QyFAuTf_h-I?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; So long as males are permitted to smoke openly, women should be able to do the same. Females are being held to a different standard than their male counterparts in society, the singer said. In addition to becoming a midwife, iOna Reine, born Mercy Sam, has always had a deep love for music. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1146662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6601,9491,698,17114,4468,9085,427],"class_list":["post-1146660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-allowed","tag-iona","tag-men","tag-shisha","tag-smoke","tag-songstress","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}