I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

I have healed myself through sharing my birth story as well as others' stories in my film 'No Woman, No Cry,' and in various writings and talks about maternal health.

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.