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“Why? Cause you say so?”
No, because you are wrong. Because nowhere in the Igros Moshe does it say what you claim again and again it says.
“Call up R’ Revain and ask him what his father held if it wasn’t
a ??? ???? to get sick because of smoking?”
I have no reason to call Rav Reuvain and waste his time because you misunderstand soemething written in the Igros Moshe.
Why dont you call him and ask him to explain the teshuva for you.
Even in his second teshuva written in 1981 (the 1st was written in 1964 several months after the first surgeons general warning about smoking) R’ Moshe held one should not start smoking and in fact held it is assur to get addicted, but as far as saying smoking was outright assur he never wrote such a thing. I am very well aware that the sefer Vidibarta Bam (piskei Rav Dovid Feinstien shlita) quotes R’ David as saying that had his father been alive today (I dont know what year “today” refers to) he surely would have assured it. However, that is not an excuse to say that Rav Moshe z’l ruled it an absolute issur to smoke, when in fact he did not. If anyone should admit they are wrong for making claims about what R’ moshe wrote in the Igros it is you. Clearly, you have no intention to. I dont expect you to. This is the last I will write on this matter. (This is an open invitation to let you have the last word)