Eating Tobacco Mixed with Slaked Lime Because Betel Has Become Expensive

Question

Nowadays, because of high prices, people have stopped eating betel (a leaf chewed with additives) and instead mix tobacco with slaked lime, rub it in the palm, pat it and eat it. Is this all right or not?

Answer

This too is one way; in some regions this very practice has been customary from before, since the time when there was no such dearness. If, because of the high prices, they had given up tobacco itself or reduced it, the saving would have been greater.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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