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**exchpaypaleg** · 09-03-2012, 11:21 PM

Many Muslims differentiate tobacco from other forms of addictions saying it has no influence on your judgement ( intoxicant ) .

This is very wishful thinking. Take a smoker's cigarettes away for a couple of hours (even a few minutes for some) and see what kind of effect it has on their judgement (i.e. when they punch you in your face, or worse. I'd call that poor judgement, wouldn't you?). Irritability, anger, agitation, annoyance, impatience, madness, etc (fill in all the relevant words you can think of)... that's what happens when a smoker doesn't get their 'dose' of nicotine. They literally start acting crazy and don't cool down until they light up again. If that is not tobacco addiction having influence on one's judgement, then I don't know what is!

Also brother Zahed I am not saying the above to you specifically because you didn't say what you said in a defensive context, I'm just saying it in general.

the people who i know that smoke sheesha say they dont even take the smoke into their lungs. they just puff it into their mouths and then blow it out.

That is also very wishful thinking. With cigarette smoke, one has to make effort to take the smoke into their lungs. With shisha, the smoke is so much and so thick that one 'normal' puff fills a person's lungs and the entire airway all the way up to nose & mouth. Furthermore, if for the sake of argument, they really were only taking very small puffs without taking it into their lungs: 1. it still goes down into them even if they don't make effort, and 2. even if it stays in their mouth, that still leaves the dangerous door open for mouth cancer and a plethora of other diseases.

May Allah

protect us all. Ameen.

09-03-2012, 11:21 PM	#19
exchpaypaleg Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	Many Muslims differentiate tobacco from other forms of addictions saying it has no influence on your judgement ( intoxicant ) . This is very wishful thinking. Take a smoker's cigarettes away for a couple of hours (even a few minutes for some) and see what kind of effect it has on their judgement (i.e. when they punch you in your face, or worse. I'd call that poor judgement, wouldn't you?). Irritability, anger, agitation, annoyance, impatience, madness, etc (fill in all the relevant words you can think of)... that's what happens when a smoker doesn't get their 'dose' of nicotine. They literally start acting crazy and don't cool down until they light up again. If that is not tobacco addiction having influence on one's judgement, then I don't know what is! Also brother Zahed I am not saying the above to you specifically because you didn't say what you said in a defensive context, I'm just saying it in general. the people who i know that smoke sheesha say they dont even take the smoke into their lungs. they just puff it into their mouths and then blow it out. That is also very wishful thinking. With cigarette smoke, one has to make effort to take the smoke into their lungs. With shisha, the smoke is so much and so thick that one 'normal' puff fills a person's lungs and the entire airway all the way up to nose & mouth. Furthermore, if for the sake of argument, they really were only taking very small puffs without taking it into their lungs: 1. it still goes down into them even if they don't make effort, and 2. even if it stays in their mouth, that still leaves the dangerous door open for mouth cancer and a plethora of other diseases. May Allah protect us all. Ameen.
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