Thank you very much Health for the advice. Maybe it will work with some of my friends.
Going back to what you said about the younger people its all just one big chain we’ve gotten ourselves into and we can’t seem to break the chain. You say that these young ppl get it from the older ppl in their yeshiva/circles, well the older people got it from their mentors in their circles…… and the chain just keeps going on and on. There’s no way we can change the industry of smoking for as you said “its bad for the smoking industry”. Well I don’t really care about the smoking industry, what I care about is what they represent and what is being allowed to happen through the smoking industry.
Its not just smoking, because a lot of people don’t see that as an addiction, but from other things that we would call addictions and corruptness we see all the time in our daily lives.
We are losing our younger generation to the glitter and glamour of “the outside world”. We’re giving all these explainations of why our kids are going off the derech or not happy with where they are now, but what are we as the regular waylay people doing about our young ones, our next generation that will continue the chain of Torah that we’ve kept alive for so long. Is it fair to them that we are having them grow up in such turbulent times and those same kids are expected to do everything perfect to create a kiddush Hashem in the world when their elders, their mentors and their peers are giving off such bad examples of character?
I know this is probably not what Health had in mind when that post was written but its just something for us all (including me) to think about.