The Ruling on Smoking and Advice to Smokers

Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, smoking is a bad and loathsome habit. What is your advice to those who have been afflicted with this smoke? Because some say that it is disliked and not forbidden?

Answer:
Our advice is that they repent to Allah and that they be merciful to themselves regarding diseases, destruction, and the squandering of wealth. Let not their habits and the desire to please people take hold of them. The one who says that it is disliked and not forbidden is mistaken. It is forbidden from several angles and for many reasons. First, it is a means of spending money without any benefit. There is no benefit in it, nor in eating it; rather, it is pure, absolute harm. Whatever is of that nature is forbidden.
Second, it is harmful to health. It is harmful to health by the consensus of doctors in the world, even the disbelievers say that it is harmful to health and that it causes serious diseases. This necessitates its prohibition.
Third, it has a foul smell. It harms the smoker and harms those around him. This necessitates its prohibition.
Fourth, it is also a means of spending money without any benefit. If he had spent this money that he uses to buy tobacco on meat or fruits or on what Allah has made lawful, it would have been better for him than this foul tobacco which has no benefit in any way. Yes.