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Gavra-at-work said-
Famous Chasam Sofer with # of teeth disagrees. Rav Chaim is well known to have agreed with this shitta, as he also says Goyim have a different physiology than Yidden re: number of teeth.
1- If you’d actually look up the Chasam Sofer (?”? ?”?)you’d see he says explicitly it’s only l’chumra not l’kulah and not with regards to sakanah.
2- Acc. to you: Don’t go to the doctor, don’t take asprin or any other medicine, cuz they won’t work.
3- R’ Chaim himself stopped smoking (late in life) as a result of what his doctor told him (R Yakov’s son’s book) and so did R’Avrohom Yehoshua(well known).
4- Smoking is proven to kill jews also. The Israeli medical journal ?????? ??? 143 ??? ‘? shows heart attack’s are caused by smoking among jews. 9/10 lung cancer patients are smokers, according to you the ratio should be lower among jews that’s not the case according to a frum oncologist I spoke to.
5- On Yom Kippur you’d to listen to a doctor not to fast and call whoever doesn’t crazy.
6- The Maharsham and others are argue on the Chasam Sofer saying even l’kulah we go with the doctors. Accoirding to Halacha by a Chshash sakana you don’t have a right to follow the maikil in sakanah exept special ??????.