Kid Cudi 'urges fans to quit smoking'

Kid Cudi has urged his fans to never smoke after his own nicotine habit left him fighting for his life.

The 'Day 'n' Nite' rapper, who started smoking in his late teens, quit cigarettes at the start of the year following a serious bout of bronchitis.

Cudi told Hip Hollywood: "I stopped smoking cigarettes. It's been about ten months. I quit cold turkey. I got bronchitis and it was a really bad situation. My temperature went to 105 [degrees]. I was literally on my death bed. I was like, 'Hey, I'm gonna stop smoking Newports right now'."

He continued: "It was a wake-up call, I'd been smoking cigarettes for seven years. It was like, man, do I wanna be smoking cigarettes for ten years? Ten more years on top of that? I'm young, I'm 24, I don't even wanna keep this up, I wanna cut this out. I think it's important for people to value their health, young or old."

The hip-hop star also revealed that he is looking to team up with anti-smoking charities in the future, adding: "I definitely wanna set something up 'cause every person that's died in my family, 99.9% of them died from cancer, or some form of cancer."