Smoking kills everyone

Smoking in public is banned in Bangladesh and people caught smoking in public have to pay a fine. Despite this, people continue to smoke in public. I don't smoke but if you're willingly paying to ingest tar and in the process doing horrible things to your insides, you do you, you nihilistic bada@#. Just don't expect me to be around you and inhale second-hand smoke.

This brings me to the latest trending topic on Bangladeshi social media – an “informed” and “educational” video on the imminent collapse of society because like men, women are smoking too. I'm confused. Does tar in cigarettes have worse implications on female lungs than male ones? Does the smoke coming out of female lips contain worse pollutants?

Can we all just agree that this is 2018 and smoking isn't cool – for all genders?

– Karim Waheed, Editor, SHOUT