It is prohibited for women to marry a man who smokes because smoking in and of itself is prohibited in Islam, said the Algerian Sheikh, Abu Abd el-Salam. Abd el-Salam also listed how smoking harms people and the environment. A number of Algerian sheikhs, however, denied this fatwa and said that marrying a smoker in not prohibited in Islam. There is no relationship between marriage and smoking because smoking is not a marital issue, they said. It is not prohibited for women to marry a smoker as it is for a man who drinks, added sheikh Youssef Bin Halima.