GAW -“When you quoted me, you forgot the last line.”
No, I didn’t. I only quote what I’m responding to. Your post is up there for anybody to read.
Btw, what does “Poe’s” mean or stand for? Peace on earth?
“If the Gedolim want people to stop smoking for your S’vara that the P’nei Yehoshua was incorrect, then they should have said so. Obviously they do not want to do so, so bochrim can still use him as a heter.”
You may have not understood my post -so I’ll explain it. Who said the Pnei Yeshoshua held smoking isn’t dangerous? Read Zvei Dinim’s post. He gives a reason that maybe the PY was only talking about the Oichel Nefesh part, not that he was saying it isn’t dangerous in the long run. I also added that maybe in the PY’s time when they smoked it was pure and nowadays it isn’t.
So you have two reasons to say that the PY would never hold nowadays that smoking is healthy.
All the Rabbonim who said it’s Ossur to smoke don’t even have to discuss the PY because there is no premise that he holds Muttar nowadays.
“as I have never smoked.”
Just curious, if you aren’t a smoker -why are you always defending smokers? Are you just the type of person that is an Ipcha Mistavra -a Moshe Kapoieah?