Picture someone suffering from cancer. The last thing anyone could gift a cancer patient is a smoke, right? Wrong. At least according to this 'cancer curing clinic' in Indonesia. Wait, what? The doctors at the Griya Balur clinic in Jakarta, Indonesia claim that smoking can actually cure patients suffering from Emphysema (a condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and enlarged, causing breathlessness), cancer, and even autism! In fact, clinic owner Dr Gretha Zahar, while speaking to AFP, even claimed that her clinic has already cured over 60,000 people using tobacco smoke in the last decade and a half.

By now, you must've figured that the Griya Balur is truly one of a kind. In fact, a clinic of such a kind would never be allowed to run in most countries. While the west, along with the rest of the world is making a conscious effort to kick the butt, the scene is alarming in Indonesia. Even though the mortality rates in Indonesia because of tobacco smoking is at an all-time high in the last forty years according to WHO, its citizens just love to smoke. Indonesia is the only country in Asia that isn't affiliated with WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Drawing huge amounts of money from tobacco sales, and billions flowing into the hungry pockets of the government, this clinic thrives on people who love the idea of getting cured while smoking.

What do they do here?

Griya Balur won't let you smoke your favourite brand of cigarettes. Instead, they will give you their "special cigarettes" to smoke. Let's assume someone is suffering from emphysema, the patient is asked to blow off smoke that's infused with "nanotechnology" to remove the disease-causing elements, through a tube into the lungs. Smoke is also blown into the patient's ears and nose to kill such elements.