Ghanaian artiste Camidoh has rendered an apology for a statement he made about smoking recently.

In an interview with Joy Prime he had compared smoking to kenkey sellers working in a smoky environment.

Camidoh told Roselyn Felli that while general advice discourages smoking due to its adverse effects on the lungs, there are other activities, like cooking kenkey, which also involve exposure to smoke.

He suggested that the perception of smoking’s harm could vary and should be individually assessed.

“Not everything that is portrayed as negative is negative. 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,” he said.

After the interview, Camidoh received a lot of flak on social media. 

He has therefore rendered an apology to his fans for the comment, indicating that his justification of the act was wrong.

“Hey yall. I just want to acknowledge that I made an analogy about smoking in a recent interview, and, in hindsight, I realize it was a poor choice and genuinely quite dumb. I'm sincerely sorry for that, and I want to formally retract that statement, along with anything I might have said in its defense. Love, Midoh,” he wrote on X.

Camidoh who released the track ‘Nothing Last Forever’ a few months ago has revealed that the song is about a heartbreak he experienced, which caused him “real pains” that led him to smoking for remedy.

Health professionals have strongly opposed this view, reinforcing that smoking is indeed detrimental to health.

They highlight that smoking poses significant health risks, including lung cancer and other types of cancer.

Additionally, smoking has severe impacts on eye health, increasing the risk of conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, dry eye syndrome, diabetic retinopathy, uveitis, Graves’ ophthalmopathy, and optic nerve damage, all of which can lead to vision problems or loss.