Reply To: stopping with a chavrusa because he smokes.

the little i know- if not for the fact that i seriously doubt that anyone who is surfing the interrnet for shmuutz, could possibly concentrate and be immersed in learning enough for me to want to be his chavrusa, then i would take him no problem, and just btw i doont believe you should be comparing smoking to gilui aroiess (one the three aveirois chamuriois), even comparing it to someone who speaks lashon hora (almost all of us).

and anyway the poskei hador have said its ossur to start smoking, i have yet to see a psak which sais that when you light up a cigarette you are being oivur a issur doiraisa.