” if I can smoke on Purim -I’ll see smoking isn’t the greatest thing since sliced bread. :”
If it isn’t, then why waste your time, lung capacity, and money on something that unimportant? Only a smoker will ever find a zechus of any kind in smoking. Most people have learned it is a painful and ugly death waiting to happen. Smpking once in a while still pollutes the air the rest of us have to breathe. I would have more respect for a smoker who simply admitted he is too weak to overcome his taivah, but not try to justify his smoking with what amounts to very weak arguments. And to try to attribute halachic heterim to it is beyond the pale.