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Liputan6.com, Jakarta: Indonesian Ulema Council issued a fatwa haram to smoke. This was supported later by the same fatwa issued by the Central Executive Muhammadiyah Majlis Legal Affairs Committee and Tajdid. "Deeds smoke contains elements collapsed into ruin," said Chief Legal Affairs Committee of Muhammadiyah Yunahar Ilyas Field in Jakarta, Wednesday (10 / 3), the background was the birth of a fatwa.

Currently public awareness about the dangers of smoking is low. So did about a ban on smoking in public places. From this was born the Regional Regulation No. 2 of 2005 on the Air Pollution Control

While the MUI fatwa haram thinks smoking should be enforced immediately. "Al-Quran as forbidding something that already entrenched in society, it pursued a gradual way," said Vice Chairman of the MUI Fatwa Ali Mustafa Ya `qub.

When I was a pro and cons, there is one that has certainly declined. Namely tobacco industry and labor. As one of the tobacco-producing country, thousands of workers from the tobacco dependent. This was accompanied by Indonesian smokers increased from year to year. (AIS)