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Halakha, is the Jewish legal literature that applies to tobacco and cigarette smoking from the early modern period to the present day. Halakha addresses three main topics the regulation of smoking on days of special Jewish significance, the debate over prohibition of smoking, per se, with regard to individual Jews and the general environmental concerns (e.g. second hand smoking).

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