Be Honest: SMOKING KILLS. Anyone who smokes is a murderer.
1. Dr Adler zt”L the famous doctor in London refused to treat patients who smoke. I heard him talk to a patient who had arrived from Eretz Yisroel who was a smoker. The doctor agreed to treat him and told him that Bezras Hashem he could help him. The doctor told him on condition he signs that he will no longer smoke – Patient refused and doctor would not treat him.
2. In Gateshead about 35 years ago a great Magid Shuir passed away in his early sixties. Many hespedim spoke of what a great man he was. Dr. Chalk zt”l got up after the hespedim and said “Rubbish he was a murderer He smoked himself to death…..