[Avodah] Is Smoking Mutar?

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Micha Berger wrote:
> In calculating the added risk caused by smoking a cigarette
> one must take into account the fact that it's addictive....
> I don't know if halkhah recognized such second order effects.

In Igros Moshe, Yoreh Deah 3:35, Rav Moshe Feinstein writes that smoking marijuana is forbidden. He gives several reasons for this, one of which is that it leads to a desire (addiction?) which some are unable to keep in check, which is the prohibition faced by the Ben Sorer uMoreh.

(I wrote much more about this teshuva in Avodah Digest 25:301.)

Akiva Miller

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