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What is the ruling on prayer when there is a pack of cigarettes in one's pocket, whether the prayer is performed at home or in the mosque, and has the prohibition of smoking been established?

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Smoking is forbidden by the consensus of contemporary scholars. Prayer performed while having a pack of cigarettes in one's clothing is valid because cigarettes are not impure, and there is no necessary correlation between prohibition and impurity. It is best to abandon this forbidden substance.

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