Does Smoking Invalidate the Fast? - Qazwini

Scholars dispute on this matter. There are two views on this:
1. Smoking is just like thick dust that is being swallowed. So if the hadith prohibits inhaling thick dust during fasting, smoking falls under that category. This is the fatwa of most scholars.
2. We cannot compare thick dust and smoking as this is qiyas. There is no evidence that smoking in particular invalidates the fast. Smoking is like water vapor (such as in the shower) and it doesn’t invalidate the fast.
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