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Do Muslims smoke cigarettes?
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Name : Abby, City : State College, State : PA, Country : United States,The answer is yes, many Muslims smoke cigarettes, cigars, pipes and waterpipes. The religious opinion on tobacco is hazy at best; although most scholars can give very good reasons for considering smoking a sin, others can prove it is a hated act but not sinful. Because there is no clear reference in the Koran or tradition on smoking (as there is, for example, on alcohol) the matter is highly debatable.
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Name : Karim, Gender : M, Age : 23, City : Los Angeles, State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Some Muslims do smoke cigarettes, although the religion says you should not. In fact, that’s how I got started smoking during college. I hung around Middle Eastern students who would sit outside the cafeteria talking politics and smoking cigarettes. Most of the students were Muslims (Sunni and Shiite), some were Christian, Druze, etc. After college, I lived with a host family in Jordan. When visiting, often, the host/hostess would offer a basket filled with different brands of cigarettes. Culturally, it is frowned upon for women to smoke, but every now and then, once my host dad left for the mosque (he would usually be gone most of the day), my host mom would throw money down to one of the kids in the street to buy us cigarettes and the women would sit and talk and smoke (we would then have to get rid of the evidence before my host dad came home). None of this has anything to do with religion, though. I just think smoking is very popular in the Middle East, particularly for men.
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Name : Michelle20586, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 36, City : Las Vegas, State : NV, Country : United States, Occupation : Analyst, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I’m really not an expert on Islam, but as far as I know, smoking is forbidden during the month of Ramadan. As for the rest of the year, I don’t know exactly. I just came back from Tunisia. There we met two young Tunisians, and I tell you, I’ve never seen anybody smoke so much. Asking them whether smoking was allowed in Islam, they each had different opinions. But they also told us they didn’t really follow Islamic law (praying five times a day, not drinking alcohol, etc.) yet they considered themselves Muslims. So I guess it very much depends on what ‘kind’ of Muslim you are. As with Christians, there are some more liberal and some very strict followers. But it might even be that smoking is not forbidden, not even for the most devout Muslims.
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Name : Lisa22826, Gender : F, Age : 19, City : Zurich, State : NA, Country : Switzerland, Occupation : student,I am an American living in Turkey, and although I don’t know the habits of Muslims in other countries, I can tell you that Turks do smoke cigarettes. Almost all the men do, and many city women; it’s a sociable thing, and Turks are extremely sociable. Turkey is also one of the top tobacco-producing countries in the world. As for adherence to the rules of Islam, Turkey is a country I have heard described as ‘Muslim Lite.’ Most Turks (though mostly men) don’t shun alcohol, either – especially a strong aniseed drink called raki, except in a few cities known to be especially religious.
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Name : Patricia19885, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 29, City : Antalya, State : NA, Country : Turkey, Occupation : travel, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I used to live in Geneva, Switzerland, which has a large population of Muslims. While some go to bars, they don’t drink. They are allowed to smoke, and I saw a lot of them doing that. I don’t believe there is any restriction to smoking in Islam.
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Name : John29325, Gender : M, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Education level : High School Diploma,The Quran does not speak specifically on smoking, as it does alcohol, but through reference a Muslim should not knowingly engage in a habit that is harmful. Muslims seek not to be a slave to anything except Allah. Most African-American Muslims do not smoke due to the discipline of the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad through which most African-American Muslims emerged directly or indirectly.
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Name : Debra25788, Gender : F, City : Philadelphia, State : PA, Country : United States,alcohol is prohibited in islam ,that’s a fact and it’s in the quran(the holy book) as for smoking some argue that its prohibited because it harms you physicaly and pshycicly and others argue that it’s just preferred not to smoke for the samme and other reasons and there are always people who don’t follow the rules everywhere
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Name : noha, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Religion : Muslim, Age : 16, City : cairo, State : NA, Country : Egypt, Occupation : student, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,Most of my friends were asking me that during the month of Ramadan. I think it’s like drinking: you start because everyone’s doing it, and soon you’re addicted. But Arabs are not allowed to smoke or take any other drugs in the Islamic religion, even though America has stereotyped us into being the ‘cigarette-smoking kind.’
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Name : Nadia B., Gender : F, Race : Islamic, Religion : Muslim, City : Ceres, State : CA, Country : United States,The Qur’an does not spicify or forbid as it does drinking. But, the Qur’an tells you not to waste your wealth on something that you do not get anything out of it.
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Name : Abukar, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Muslim, Age : 29, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : Teacher, Education level : 4 Years of College,MUSLIMS DO NOT SMOKE CIGARETTES, NOR DO THEY DRINK. ISLAM MEANS PEACE AND TO BE MUSLIM MEANS TO SUBMIT YOURSELF TO ONE GOD. EVER SINCE I BECAME MUSLIM I’VE FELT PEACE AND I FEEL NO FEAR. I ALWAYS FEEL AS THOUGH SOMEONE IS WATCHING OVER ME AND I NEVER FELT THAT WAY WHEN I WAS CHRISTIAN. I FEEL AS THOUGH EVERYONE SHOULD LOOK INTO ISLAM.
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Name : TIANA C, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Muslim, Age : 20, City : CLEVELAND, State : OH, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Generally, in Islam, it is sinful to do things that cause oneself harm. Smoking can be categorized under this ruling. Just like drugs. And of all the sins one can commit, only one is not forgivable, and that is a belief in a deity other than (or with) Allah. Smoking used to be a ‘hated’ act according to Muslim scholars. But by early 90’s, many scholars have moved up to a sinful act. And Allah is forgiving, most-merciful.
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Name : Abdullah I., Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Muslim, Age : 29, City : Detroit, State : MI, Country : United States, Occupation : Engineer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,How dare you defile our religion with comparisons to the Godless cult led by Louis Farakkhan. This racist, violent and exclusionary ‘religion’ is in no way related to Islam.
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Name : nuha, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Asian, Religion : Muslim, Age : 31, City : flint, State : MI, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,
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