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>>easy solution, get the Rabbonim to issue a ruling, that no girls are allowed to date/marry any boys that smoke. That will end it quite quickly <<
As if we do not have enough of a shidduch crisis, now we need to remove a large amount of boys from the “shidduch pool”
As I said before, in 2000, there were signs all over Mea Sharim and other neighborhoods about a psak signed by about 35 gedolim (ones people have heard of) stating that “due to new information, smoking is dangerous. It is forbidden to start, we encourage those who have to quit, and if one must smoke, one should do it away from others.”
The signs were up no more than 48 hours. I’d see people ripping them down in front of Zichron Moshe before lighting up.
Incidentally, this psak came out the same time the no-internet psak came out in Eretz Yisroel.
As for those who say that it is none of their business what they do and how they do it. Next time you are on a plane, take a window seat and break open your window mid-flight. When anyone tries to stop you remind them YOU have the Window seat and YOU want the window open and THEY can mind their own business.