I merely stated that only a smoker could find a zechus for smoking,and I stand by that. Most non-smokers do not find anything good to say about smoking. It literally stinks, it causes cancer, emphysema, bronchitis, heart disease and stroke, and it is a vice that affects not only the person using it, but also everyone around that person, as well as our environment at large. I may never smoke in my life, but if I live or work with a smoker, I can also get those diseases.
Babies who have a parent who smokes, have statistically higher rates of upper respiratory infections compared to those raised in a non-smoking environment. These are not my own stats, it is common knowledge. In this day and age anyone who fails to grasp that very simple fact is sorely in need of a visit to any lung cancer ward to see what that heter has allowed to happen. I have no doubt that were he still alive, R’ Moshe ZT”L would reverse his original decision.