Q&A: Smoking Cigarettes and Weed
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Smoking Cigarettes and Weed
Question
I don’t smoke, but I wanted to know whether there is any halakhic prohibition against smoking cigarettes and weed (drugs)?
Answer
I’m not aware of one, but if there is a health danger then yes. If not, then there is no prohibition, unless you are issuing halakhic rulings or serving in the Temple.
Discussion on Answer
As I understand it, by saying “regular cigarettes” he did not mean cannabis cigarettes, but rather more natural cigarettes, apparently hand-rolled ones.
In any case, all smoke is harmful to one degree or another; it’s like saying you should prohibit traveling in cars that emit smoke, or lighting a fire, and the like…
Even regular cigarettes harm your health, and are forbidden (responsa Shevet HaLevi).