Is smoking lawful or forbidden?

Question:
Is smoking lawful or forbidden? The smoking that is inhaled, such as smoking and the like.

Answer:
This is forbidden (haram). Smokers consume it and harm themselves with it, and they inhale this smoke into their throats, chests, and bellies. This is forbidden because it is very harmful and causes serious diseases. It also drains money without any benefit and offends the people who sit with him or ride with him in a car or elsewhere. So, he offends himself, offends others, wastes his money, and harms his body. There are many harms in this foul smoke. Therefore, it is forbidden without doubt. It is obligatory (wajib) for the one whom Allah has spared to thank Allah the Exalted and to beware of it. It is obligatory (wajib) for the one whom Allah has afflicted with it to repent to Allah the Exalted, leave it, and save himself from this frightening nightmare. We ask Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, for the well-being of our Muslim brothers, and we ask Allah for our afflicted brothers to repent from this affliction, leave it, and be saved from the Reckoning.