When I was in 'Akká, I procured a copy of a Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá known as Lawh-i-Dukhán which is written in honour of Muhammad-Husayn-i-Vakíl...When I arrived in Egypt I shared the contents of this Tablet which disapproved of smoking with Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl.
I had not yet finished the reading of the Tablet for him when he took his cigar case, threw it out in the street and said that this was the end of smoking for him, although he was a chain-smoker. He used to roll his own cigarettes by hand, light a new one with the old, and smoke non-stop from morning till evening. He said to me: 'O Rúhí Effendi, I have been smoking for fifty-five years and I am addicted to it. And, soon you will see that because of the effect of nicotine a member of my body will be paralysed.
It did not take very long until one of his arms was paralysed and he could not move it. This lasted for two years. The doctors strongly urged him to resume smoking but he refused, saying, 'I prefer to die than to disobey 'Abdu'l-Bahá.'
The Revelation of Baha'u'llah, Vol 3. Adib Taherzadeh.
https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha%27i/Others/ROB/V3/p433-441Apndx_II.html
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