[Avodah] NoSmokers for my Daughter

[Zev Sero]

Gershon Seif wrote:
>> Zev Sero: So who says that one may not accept a >50% risk of
>> losing a few months at the end of ones life in return for the presumed
>> pleasure of smoking now, decades earlier?   Surely a source is needed
>> for such a proposition.

> But what about the fact that smokers cause harm to those around them?
> Is there a heter for that?

This claim is also far from proven, and hamotzi mechavero alav
hara'ayah. 


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