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Don’t talk loshon hora in your car.
It’s not just a matter of singing a goyishe tune, even with different words. It’s probably just as assur to use goyishe musical styles, even for yiddishe songs. And it’s more than a matter of goyishe musical styles, it’s probably just as assur to use goyishe musical instruments. After all, were there electric guitars in the Beis Hamikdosh? The only kosher music for a Jew is to pound the table and go “ay-ay-ay” like our forefathers have been doing for generations.
A cute story about roshei yeshivos and smoking: In my younger days the boys voted there should be no smoking in the beis medrish. The next day we say one of the rabbeim standing in the doorway and smoking. A few of us told him, respectfully, that we voted no smoking in the beis midrash.
Ever mindful of our chinuch, our teacher said “When this place looks more like beis medrish I’ll stop smoking.” We accepted his mussar and needless to say he lived up to his end of the deal.
“…im gonna have to side with those who say that a Yid’s body is different to a Goy’s…”
That’s completely wrong, no matter what you were told in yeshiva. The biology of your body has nothing to do with what your religion is.
As for the Chazon Ish, zt”l, there’s not a chance I would let him into my operating room, no matter what stories you were told.
Heilige yidden will continue to die from smoking as long as we continue to pasken from ‘someone who heard somebody else say in a Shaboos shmuzen that they read in a book that a certain talmid said a story about their rebbe…” Cancer cells could care less.
Makes no difference which rav you quote. Your body doesn’t hold by this rebbe or that rebbe. Your body operates according to its biology. Smoking is dangerous to your health and to the health of everyone around you. Smoking is addictive. Smoking kills. Regardless of what (you think) your rebbe tells you.