The point I made wasn’t conspiracy theorizing. The fact of the matter is that smoking is a lot more prevalent in religious-right communities than it is in the MO. Members of the MO often claim that’s because their poseks assur it (it’s really probably more a matter of social class).
If you have to listen to MO’s long enough, you’re bound to hear one eventually say “smoking is a perfect example of where we’re actually MORE strict than those crazy black-hatters,” or some such thing. It gets old. Yes, I was accusing this thread of being one of such cases and I stand by that.