Reply To: Drug addicts in yeshiva

Research time and time again has proven that smoking causes the smoker and second hand smoker to die earlier than a non smoker/ someone who is at minimal- no exposure to second hand smoke.

In fact, every time you see an advertisement, a pack of cigarettes, or something of the like, there is ALWAYS a warning from the surgeon general that says smoking kills and causes death (something along those lines). If research has proven this through leading universities, with the best medical doctors in the world, and, in fact, I believe that our gedolim ban smoking and say it is assur (if not, then they should say that) then there is no reason, at the very least, for a person who has never smoked before to even experiment with it.

Unfortunately, if you go on facebook, there are buchorim who are more chilled and they are stupid enough to post pictures of themselves smoking on facebook. And then what happens when they want to apply to college? Get a job? There are so many institutions that preform background checks regardless of the industry (eepecially teaching!) because they want to make sure that their prospective employee has healthy eating habits and can be a good productive member or society and in the work place.

Therefore, smoking, in the long run, is not compatible with the yeshiva culture at all.