Is cigarette smoking prohibited?
Verses in Tanach
Devarim 4:9; 4:15
Tehillim 116:6
Talmud / Midrash and commentaries
Avodah Zarah 30b [Risks which people generally ignore]
Bava Kama 90b, 91b [Chovel beAtzmo]
Pesachim 113a [addictive habits]
Shabbat 129a [Bal Tashchit of the body]
Shabbat 129b [Risks which people generally ignore]
Yevamot 72a [Risks which people generally ignore]
Rashi Pesachim 113a "Lo Tishti Sama" [addictive and harmful habits]
Pnei Yehoshua Shabbat 39b [Smoking as therapeutic behavior]
Yam Shel Shelomo Bava Kama 8:59 [Bal Tashchit of the body]
Post Talmud / Midrash, Pre-Rishonim
Mishneh Torah and commentaries
Hilchot Chovel UMazik 5:1 [harming oneself]
Hilchot Deiot 4:1 [preventing danger]
Hilchot Rotzeiach UShmirat haNefesh 11:4-5 [preventing danger]
Rishonim [Pre-"Code of Jewish Law"]
Tur, Shulchan Aruch ["Code of Jewish Law"] and Commentaries
Tur and Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 420:31 [harming one's self]
Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 427:8-10 [preventing danger]
Rama Choshen Mishpat 155:20 [risk assessment]
Rama Yoreh Deah 116:5 [preventing danger]
Acharonim [Post-"Code of Jewish Law"]
Recent Authorities
Igrot Moshe Choshen Mishpat 2:18 [second-hand smoke], Even haEzer 4:76; Orach Chaim 5:34 [Shaveh leKol Nefesh]; Yoreh Deah 2:49
Tzitz Eliezer 15:39 [smoking, second-hand smoke]
Yabia Omer 1: Orach Chaim 33:10 [smoking as a hazard]; 5: Orach Chaim 39 [paragraph beginning "veAmnam"]
Journal of Halachah and Contemporary Society Vol. 4 (Fall '82) - Cigarette Smoking and Jewish Law, Dr. Fred Rosner
Tradition Summer '77 pg. 121-123, Rabbi J. David Bleich
Tradition Summer '78 pg. 137-142
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