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Lifestyle

Cigar Enthusiast Faith Wavinya poses for a photo at Brick Cigars Kenya in Nairobi on October 12, 2023.

| Lucy Wanjiru| Nation Media Group

Young smokers ditch shisha, cigarettes for cigars. Are they aware of risks?

What you need to know:

  • Kenya hosts a good number of millionaires, young people included, and cigars are part of their life.
  • The internet has also made cigars accessible for any willing person.
  • I’m attending a cigar party of men and women in their late 20s and 30s and perhaps one or two people in their 50s and 60s.

A few years ago, cigars were a preserve of old, rich men seated on brown leather sofas, smoking in a room with dimmed lights.

Then come the younger, impressionable men and women who graduated from shisha and cigarettes to cigars. But are they aware of the health risks?