What is the ruling on financing a cigarette factory's purchases of papers, cartons, and boxes used in the production of cigarette packaging?
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There is no doubt that means take the rulings of their ends, and whatever leads to the forbidden is itself forbidden. Scholars have explicitly stated the prohibition of selling grapes to someone who will press them into wine, because it is assisting in evil. Smoking is forbidden, and whatever is forbidden to consume is forbidden to sell and manufacture. Therefore, the manufacture and trade of cigarettes are forbidden. The forbidden trade includes financing them with papers and boxes, because it is assisting in the manufacture and production of something forbidden.
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