Reply To: Smoking Cigarettes

I’m a non-smoker, but I deal with many baalei teshuva who smoke. I’m curious for some responses to what one such baal teshuva said to me last year: “Why are people always using the svara that smoking is unhealthy therefore assur when they stuff themselves with food – being overweight is unhealthy as well but I don’t see anyone screaming that the next serving of chicken is assur.”