Dr. Dovvshtein -“Oh you’re right!
The Gadol Hador must have missed that step!
Quick call him up!
Sorry, I apologize, he must have been “mis-informed” (That’s the great heter going around nowadays for everything right?)”
Your sarcasm doesn’t change my point. I don’t know how the Shaila was posted to him, nor do I know if he knows or knew about Second-hand smoke at the time of his P’sak.
So if you want to say Muttar, which to me smoking is a classic case of Hezek which the Torah says Ossur -you and anyone like you are the ones who have to call him up, not me!
You can’t just assume when he said Muttar it included this issue, esp. because the Teshuva says only Tzorech -this would have nothing to do with Mazik!