Advice to Smokers and an Explanation of the Harms of Smoking

Question:
This question asks: What is your advice to smokers? What guidance do you have for them? And what is the best opinion regarding curbing this phenomenon inside and outside the university, given its significant impact on oneself and on others? The question is from the student Sultan Abdullah al-Thani from the College of Engineering.

Answer:
Everyone knows, even the smoker himself knows, that smoking is harmful; that is one point. Second, he knows that it has no benefit and is pure harm. Third, he knows that Allah has forbidden everything that contains harm and anything that destroys health; He has forbidden that. He, Exalted and Majestic is He, said: He is responsible for his body on the Day of Resurrection; he will be asked about his body and what he did to it. The first thing he will be asked about is his body and what he did to it—whether he subjected it to narcotics, intoxicants, or harmful substances. He will be asked about this and held accountable for it on the Day of Resurrection. So he must preserve his body, take healthy, beneficial, and nutritious substances, and leave harmful substances, lethal substances, and substances that contain no good. He should not put anything into his body that harms him or is a cause for the destruction of his life. Yes.