2. Worldliness

3. Worldliness
Smoking

4. Smoking Is A Problem Common among men & women
Restrictions in public places
Warning labels on packages
Kick the habit “kits”
Age restriction on buying tobacco

5. Is There Anything Wrong With
The Question Is:
Is There Anything Wrong With
Smoking?
Is it a sin?

6. Smoking
I. It Is Harmful To The Body

7. It Harms The Body
Smoking Is Harmful To The Body

8. Evidence of the Harm of Smoking
Every time a cigarette is smoked, it is like putting a clamp on the blood vessels. It has been shown that smoking even one cigarette will constrict the arteries, veins, and capillaries, and to that extent will slow down the blood circulation in all parts of the body, including the brain.
- Alton Oshsner, MD
International Society of Surgery

9. Evidence of the Harm of Smoking
“Cigarette smoking is now as important cause of death as the great past epidemics of typhoid, cholera and tuberculosis.”
- British Royal College of Physicians

10. Evidence of the Harm of Smoking
“The good news is that we know the cause of at least 80% of the cases of this leading cancer killer -- cigarettes.”
- Harvard Medical School Health Letter
(Vol. III, No. 6, April 1978)

11. Evidence of the Harm of Smoking
“Cigarette smoking is a major cause of emphysema, chronic bronchitis, lung cancer, heart disease….Just one cigarette speeds up your heart beat, increases your blood pressure, upsets the flow of blood and air in your lungs, causes a drop in the skin temperature of your fingers and toes.”
- American Lung Association

12. Evidence of the Harm of Smoking
“Nicotine raises the smoker’s blood pressure and speeds up his pulse.”
- Dr. Authur H. Cain
“Smoking one pack or more a day will shorten one’s life on the average by 12 years.”
- Curtis Torno, MD (Christian)

13. Evidence of the Harm of Smoking
“Smoking is the predominant cause of bronchitis and emphysema.”
- T. Mark Loyd, MD (Christian)
“Both Nicotine and carbon monoxide contribute significant increase in heart attacks and in sudden death from coronary heart disease in cigarette smokers.”
- Dr. Wilbert S. Aronow

14. Evidence of the Harm of Smoking
Survey of 10,000 physicians:
Question: “Do you consider cigarette smoking as hazardous to your health?”
98% - Yes!
2% - Weren’t sure
0% - No!

15. Evidence of the Harm of Smoking
Warning Labels on Package:
- “The Surgeon General has determined that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.”
- May cause birth defects.
Health & Life Insurance Rates: Higher for smokers

16. Nicotine is a drug / poison
Evidence of the Harm
of Smoking
Nicotine is a drug / poison
Dipping & Chewing
Mouth & Gum Cancer

17. It Harms The Body Smoking Is Harmful To The Body
It Is Sinful To Deliberately Harm The Body

18. Must Not Harm The Body 1 Cor 6:19-20 Body is not yours - but God’s
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Body is not yours - but God’s
Have no right to abuse your body (context)
Wrong to destroy the temple (cf. 1 Cor. 3:17)
If not true - Then not wrong to use hard drugs!

19. Smoking
I. It Is Harmful To The Body
II. It Is Addictive

20. It Is Addictive 2 Peter 2:19 Smoking is addictive
Hard to quit. Many try and fail.
Can’t go a day without it. Many - an hour.
What if same true of cornbread?
2 Peter 2:19

21. It Is Addictive Smoking is addictive An addiction is a sin
1. 1 Cor. 6:12 - “to nothing will I become enslaved” (Weymouth)
2. Violates Temperance / Self Control - 2 Pet. 1:5-10

22. It Is Addictive Smoking is addictive An addiction is a sin
An addiction is not a habit
Habits can be good
Even bad habits - not sinful
Addiction = Dependence

23. Smoking I. It Is Harmful To The Body II. It Is Addictive
III. Affects Other People

24. It Affects Others Smoking affects others around the smoker
Smoke off the burning end - just as dangerous
Harms the family - Children, mate, etc.
Affects one’s breathing, voice, etc.
Smell gets in other’s hair, clothes, car, etc.

25. It Affects Others Smoking affects others around the smoker
Must treat others respectfully
Matt. 7:12
Phil. 2:4

26. Smoking I. It Is Harmful To The Body II. It Is Addictive
III. Affects Other People
IV. Arguments To Justify Smoking

27. Arguments Used To Justify
“Some doctors say it is alright”
“Coffee, cokes, candy, etc. just as bad.”
“Matt. 15:11 - What goes into the mouth doesn’t defile the man.”
“It is my body to do as I please.”
“God made tobacco. So, it is good.”
“Tit. 1:5 - all things are pure.”
“Rom. 14:14 - nothing is unclean.”

28. Smoking I. It Is Harmful To The Body II. It Is Addictive
III. Affects Other People
IV. Arguments To Justify Smoking

29. Quitting Can quit! - If not, no self control!
Others have quit - Never regretted it
First, admit it is wrong - then quit!