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Ed Sheeran Celebrates One Year of Quitting Smoking

Ed Sheeran. (Getty Images)
Ed Sheeran. (Getty Images)
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Ed Sheeran Celebrates One Year of Quitting Smoking

Ed Sheeran. (Getty Images)
Ed Sheeran. (Getty Images)

English singer Ed Sheeran said he is celebrating one year of quitting smoke.

Sheeran wrote on Instagram that he is celebrating 365 days since his last cigarette, after he pledged to quit the bad habit in 2017, the Contact Music website reported on Monday.

According to the German News Agency, the 27-year-old singer shared a black and white photo featuring him performing on stage, with a caption: “Celebrating one year being a non-smoker today.”

Sheeran had been a smoker since he was 13-years-old.

He debuted as a singer in 2011 with his first successful album “Plus”, and won the BRIT Award for the Best Male Solo Artist in 2012.

Later this year, Sheeran plans to marry his fiancée, hockey player Cherry Seaborn, whom he met in high school.

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Heavy Rains Flood Congo’s Capital

People walk through the flooded streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)
People walk through the flooded streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)
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Heavy Rains Flood Congo’s Capital

People walk through the flooded streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)
People walk through the flooded streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Major flooding hit several neighborhoods in Congo's capital Kinshasa, killing at least 19 people and causing severe damage, authorities said Saturday.

Heavy rains Friday through Saturday triggered floods and landslides in Kinshasa's western neighborhood of Ngaliema, killing at least 17 people, the local mayor, Fulgence Bolokome, told the radio station Top Congo. Two avenues in the city were also cut off, he added.

Two other people died when the deluge toppled a wall in the southern neighborhood of Lemba, Mayor Jean-Serge Poba said. A police camp and a bridge were damaged, The AP news reported.

“It was around 3 a.m. when we heard a loud noise. When we went outside, the neighbors’ wall had collapsed. The man and his wife both died, leaving behind five children who made it out unharmed,” resident Clovis Kalenga told The Associated Press.

In April, floods in Kinshasa killed at least 22 people and cut off access to over half the city and the country’s main airport.