Davening with a minyan and being on time for seder are serious issues, but whether you should slowly commit suicide — which is really what smoking is (see R’ Avigdor Miller on this issue) — is obviously a matter of life or death! It’s no exaggeration to say it could kill you, too — second-hand smoke is a serious cause of cancer that kills a lot of people, spouses included! It’s also a chillul Hashem, assuming he smokes in public — he’s devoting himself full-time to the Torah and yiddishkeit but he’s enslaved to a disgusting habit even the most uneducated of the non-Jews know is deadly? If I were you, I would put aside everything else and put all your efforts into getting him to stop smoking.
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