Hi yenting.
I have not doubt that your view on smoking is right on target, and understand it’s deleting because our community’s smoker are purely ignorant on the subject.
I just posted this a few minutes ago on another thread:
“I cannot tell you how many people in our community will argue that smoking is really ok and helps them to relax and is not so bad because its the only “bad: thing they do.
At least in the outside world they admit they should quit, have tried numerous times, and that it will probably kill them.
Not only that, but there is evidence that from the first puff, permanent genetic mutations can take place that can chas veshalom affect the smokers children to be born at some time in the future.
I just dont get it. Smoking, (even more than texting and internet), should be declared a sakana; period! Kosher phone; kosher mind;…… kosher body!””
Yinting. I dont know why so many in our community, the smartest on earth, support, yes, support the idea of cigarettes.
One would think due to the terrible rise in illness, that in addition to checking tznius, tefillin, middos, etc, people should be told to remove cigarettes from their lives.