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As members of Detroit's Torah-
observant community, we were
somewhat dismayed to read in
your Aug. 8 article, titled "In To-
day, Out Tomorrow," that Rab-
bi Steven Weil feels that cigar
smoking is "not encouraged, but
not discouraged either because
it's not addictive" and that "in
small, moderate amounts, it's all
right."
This would appear to be
in contradiction to his widely
known and publicized actions of
enjoying a good cigar, and lead-
ing and promoting a cigar-smok-
ing shiur (study session). It
would seem to us that these are
not the actions and behavior of
an individual that could be in-
terpreted as not encouraging cig-
ar smoking.
A recent article in Newsweek
("Are Stogies Safer Than Ciga-
rettes?" July 21) presents quite a
different picture of the addic-
tiveness and health hazards of
cigars. I would not consider ex-
posure to a carcinogen; modest
increases in lung cancer, stroke
and heart attack; risks and sig-
nificant increases in cancer of the
mouth, larynx, esophagus and
pancreas to be "all right."
While I am not a rabbi, I see
this as evidence to strongly con-
sider putting cigar smoking un-
der the same Torah warning that
many of our sages have used to
derive prohibitions against cig-
arette smoking and other prac-
tices that are threatening our
health and lives. Namely, "take
heed to thyself and take care of
thy life: (Deuteronomy 4:9) and
"take good care of your lives"
(Deuteronomy 22:8).
We would hope that our com-
munity's rabbinic leaders would
serve as better role models, take
a stronger stand against this
trend, and choose not to expose
us, our families and our children
to these practices.

Dr. Steven Tennenberg

Oak Park

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pendent on their children."
For those who were receiving
SSI before Aug. 22, 1996, the new
law extends their SSI and Med-
icaid indefinitely. For those who
came after that date, the clock is
ticking on the seven-year limi-
tation. Families can feed and
house their elderly parents,
Yoskowitz said, but who can pay
for their health care?
She believes the best answer
for any refugee is to obtain U.S.
citizenship in order to obtain U.S.
benefits.
She estimates there are
12,000-20,000 former Soviet citi-
zens in the Detroit area. The Jew-
ish community has brought in
5,000 since 1989. Thirty percent
are senior citizens; nearly 70 per-
cent are job-eligible.
`The majority have been very
successful in becoming financial-
ly independent," said Yoskowitz.
`These are proud people. Nobody
likes a handout." But some are
working poor with minimum-
wage jobs, others are unable to
accept work, and a few don't ac-
cept what is offered.
JFS has begun a concerted ef-
fort to get the refugees to obtain
citizenship. It operates eight-week
citizenship classes, provides re-
duced-cost fingerprint, photo-
graph and citizenship application
help and counseling on how to
deal with INS problems.
Next month, JFS is changing
its three-hour citizenship review
class to a three-week review. And
while the agency is helping 10-13
refugees each day work on at-
taining citizenship, Yoskowitz
worries.
Last week's legislation re-
moved some of the burden and
urgency on the community and
the refugees, but also some of the
urgency to become a citizen.

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