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Benignuman responded to “–Smoking a single cigarette should also be asur because it can lead to a habit and then an addiction–“

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“We cannot make up new geizeros in modern times (without a Sanhedrin)..”

Without a takanah, would it be muttar to eat a candy where (1) the next one contains cyanide and (2) ten percent of people couldn’t resist the 2nd cyanide laced candy – even though they thought they would withstand the temptation? Or would that be considered a <chshash sakana> and be assur?