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and abdominal pain, was widespread. Some samples harbored other
potentially harmful bacteria, including salmonella...
Some of the bacteria we found in 198 samples proved to be resistant to
antibiotics commonly used to treat people. The frequent use of low-dose
antibiotics in pork farming may be accelerating the growth of drug-resistant
“superbugs” that threaten human health.
The dangers of tobacco are well known. A fact sheet at the World Health
Organization website states that tobacco kills six million people a year (including
600,000 from the effects of second-hand smoke, which causes “serious
cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, including coronary heart disease and lung
cancer”). Up to half of all tobacco users will die from a tobacco-related disease.
{O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone
altars [to other than Allah], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of
Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.} (Quran 5: 90)
As for alcohol, its dangers are also well documented. The World Health
Organization’s fact sheet on alcohol explains that, “Worldwide, 3.3 million deaths
every year result from harmful use of alcohol, this represent 5.9 % of all deaths.”
Alcohol is also described as “a causal factor in more than 200 disease and injury
conditions,” including “a range of mental and behavioural disorders, other
noncommunicable conditions as well as injuries” and infectious diseases. Current
medical advice often refers to “moderate drinking” as being safe for some people,
and news reports even cite some benefits from “moderate” drinking. Allah addressed
this argument when He informed us:
{They ask you about wine and gambling. Say: In them is great sin and [yet, some]
benefit for people. But their sin is greater than their benefit...} (Quran 2: 219)
Islam also prescribes fasting, which has many benefits for the body, especially
the digestive system. Prophet Muhammad (bpuh) warned against overeating, saying:
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