{"id":1202195,"date":"2022-09-11T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T11:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/11\/i-never-thought-of-becoming-a-smoker-sarkodie\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T11:22:46","slug":"i-never-thought-of-becoming-a-smoker-sarkodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/11\/i-never-thought-of-becoming-a-smoker-sarkodie\/","title":{"rendered":"I Never Thought Of Becoming A Smoker – Sarkodie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sarkodie Smoking Cigars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Celebrated Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie has once again opened up about his pervasive smoking habit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Photos and videos of the iconic rapper inhaling smoke from gargantuan cigars sighted by OneMuzikGh.Com have been trending on social media.<\/p>\n

Critics and some \u2018moral driven\u2019 organizations have always been on him, indicting him of being a\u00a0 bad influence on the youth as he is one of the key influential celebrities in the country.<\/p>\n

The Ghana Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)\u00a0 called on him in 2021 to apologize to well-meaning Ghanaians for making the smoking of cigars attractive on social media.<\/p>\n

According to CSOs, Sarkodie\u2019s images were likely to negatively impact the youth who see him as a role model.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sark Nation President responded by indicating categorically in an interview that he had no intention of misleading the youth or influencing them badly.<\/p>\n

He added that he was not a chain smoker but he smokes Cigars because, in his view, it represents success and greatness.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2022, he made mentioned in an interview that he doesn\u2019t trust himself and that is because he never had the intention or thought of becoming a smoker someday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t trust myself\u2026I never thought I would be smoking cigars, but look at me now, I smoke\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

He said the above a few weeks after brand new photos of him smoking surfaced on the media.<\/p>\n

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Sarkodie Smoking Cigars Celebrated Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie has once again opened up about his pervasive smoking habit. Photos and videos of the iconic rapper inhaling smoke from gargantuan cigars sighted by OneMuzikGh.Com have been trending on social media. Critics and some \u2018moral driven\u2019 organizations have always been on him, indicting him of being a\u00a0 bad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8312,25513,7766],"class_list":["post-1202195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-sarkodie","tag-smoker","tag-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202195","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=1202195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}