Smoking is more of a personal thing but it does impact his health and may affect a footballers lifespan.
I actually was ok with not signing him last year bec i thought he would be on the way down form wise but he ended the season a lot stronger so i hope he continues like that. Also mentally he is all there.
Hope he does well
I'll start by saying I've never smoked in my life and never will.
But this is a myth. Smoking is something that makes average people have breathing and/or fatigue issues. The effect on an athlete is minimal and it will only show after they retire and stop training heavily. Severe health issues also is something that won't affect their career as they'll show way after that, if at all.
Drinking is worse than smoking. And consider that Romario was one of the greatest players/strikers of all time, played till he was 40+, rarely showed up for training, sometimes went right to the stadium from all nighter parties and probably had more alcohol in his body than water. And no one really could tell unless you were into the gossip side of things.
I know it's supposedly a different era now, more professional etc but that's true for some things other than the players themselves. Johan Cryuff smoked like a pack of cigarettes during a game. As for a more recent example, I've heard that Zidane is the heaviest smoker anyone has ever seen. Zidane. He retired after 2006 and he looked like he could play for at least 5 more years.
And the biggest name that's a heavy smoker in our days is... Lionel Messi. At least one pack a day, rumours say. There was also a rumour of an intervention
Not sure how it went.
Wesley Sneijder was and probably still is a heavy smoker. Ozil is also a known smoker.
People [in Italy] diss Nainggolan coz he's Asian and doesn't look the part. He's filled up with tattoos, smokes and doesn't have the prejudiced Asian dorky look that (southern) Europeans expect to see. There's really no reason to hate on Nainggolan smoking and I fucking hate smoking... I didn't expect to see this naivety imported here though.