Is smoking a sin?

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Jay Ross

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You talkin to me?

Who says I smoke? Or drink alcohol? Or watch TV? Or go to sports events?

Why do people always got to make things personal, when they are posing to be teachers of the doctrine of God?

If I did smoke, it would be for the same reason for having sex with my spouse: I want to. I like it. I enjoy it. I like it, I love it, and I want more of it!

No one has to be a smoker to reject false law-making about smoking.

One thing is for sure, Scripture never condemns smoking, but Scripture sure has plenty of condemnation for false teachers who add their own commandments, traditions, and laws to the Word of God.

Children playing with fire is what many do, because they get on some crusade about something they don't personally like.

I'd rather be around a smoking sinner than an anti-smoking crusader.

Self-righteously preening pompous potentates are far more disgusting to my soul than any cigarette smoke to my flesh (which I do not like).

You pompous ass. If you had looked and considered what I had posted, you would have noted that I had bolded the important segments of my short quip.

It was not personally directed at you if you had only read the bold words you would have read and understood this: -

No, the reason why probably is.​

This is true of all potential sins that we commit.

The reason why you responded to my quip in the manner that you did, is also the cause of you sinning in this particular case.

I for one did smoke. I smoked for 25 years. A packet a day person, but i was able to give up my smoking in an afternoon's dunking.

Sink that afternoon, over thirty years ago, I have not had a desire to have another cigarette. However, I did other things to comfort me for a time.
 

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You pompous ass. If you had looked and considered what I had posted, you would have noted that I had bolded the important segments of my short quip.

It was not personally directed at you if you had only read the bold words you would have read and understood this: -

No, the reason why probably is.​

This is true of all potential sins that we commit.

The reason why you responded to my quip in the manner that you did, is also the cause of you sinning in this particular case.

I for one did smoke. I smoked for 25 years. A packet a day person, but i was able to give up my smoking in an afternoon's dunking.

Sink that afternoon, over thirty years ago, I have not had a desire to have another cigarette. However, I did other things to comfort me for a time.
Oops. My bad then. Next time, I'll just ask and leave it at that.

And if you are not a self-righteously preening pompous potentate, then good for you.

It still applies to busybodies going about to establish their own rule of self-righteousness over others.
 

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I seriously doubt that smelling someone else's second hand smoke is a sin. You can't foresee or control that a lot of the time. I've never been a smoker, but I've been involuntarily subjected to other people's carelessness thousands upon thousands of times from infancy into recent adulthood. That wasn't my sin. People smoke in public, outside doorways to businesses or in a parking lot. Smoke travels. That's not the sin of the one who didn't choose to be subjected to it.
It is NOT the smelling of second hand smoke from cigarettes that kills rather it is the INHALING of the second hand smoke that KILLS!!!

Just read the WARNING LABEL on a pack of cigarettes which began in 1966. And it changed in 1984 to include the warning by the Surgeon General that women who smoke cigarettes during pregnancy is hazardous to the fetus. And this is one of many reasons why babies are born deformed and with all kinds of diseases because mothers do not care but themselves and especially those who smoke around pregnant women.

Today America is lagging behind other countries of the world in advertising about warning and putting graphic images on cigarette packages. Such as lung cancer, heart diseases, emphysema and diseases causing deformities. Then tell these as they grow up why they are sick or deformed and with all kinds of diseases!

Indeed God is wise as He commanded "not to kill" because He knew the evil of mankind!

Choose what you think to believe. Does killing mean we can't kill animals for consumption or did God mean not to take another's life such as smoking in individuals, during pregnancies, or in public places.

Do we really understand God's command "not to kill?" Does it mean God had in mind we couldn't kill animals for our consumption? Or, did He mean not to murder? You choose.

To God Be The Glory
 
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It is NOT the smelling of second hand smoke from cigarettes that kills rather it is the INHALING of the second hand smoke that KILLS!!!

Just read the WARNING LABEL on a pack of cigarettes which began in 1966. And it changed in 1984 to include the warning by the Surgeon General that women who smoke cigarettes during pregnancy is hazardous to the fetus. And this is one of many reasons why babies are born deformed and with all kinds of diseases because mothers do not care but themselves and especially those who smoke around pregnant women.

Today America is lagging behind other countries of the world in advertising about warning and putting graphic images on cigarette packages. Such as lung cancer, heart diseases, emphysema and diseases causing deformities. Then tell these as they grow up why they are sick or deformed and with all kinds of diseases!

Indeed God is wise as He commanded "not to kill" because He knew the evil of mankind!

Choose what you think to believe. Does killing mean we can't kill animals for consumption or did God mean not to take another's life such as smoking in individuals, during pregnancies, or in public places.

Do we really understand God's command "not to kill?" Does it mean God had in mind we couldn't kill animals for our consumption? Or, did He mean not to murder? You choose.

To God Be The Glory
I know about the dangers of second hand smoke. Btw, in order to smell, you have yo inhale. It still isn't the sin of the person who happens to cross the path of someone who os smoking or left their lit cigarette near an entry to a building.
 
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I know about the dangers of second hand smoke. Btw, in order to smell, you have yo inhale. It still isn't the sin of the person who happens to cross the path of someone who os smoking or left their lit cigarette near an entry to a building.

Have you not seen the commercial where a person privately is smoking in his own apartment and the cigarette smoke travels through the ventilation system and out above his apartment where a little child is playing privately in his own apartment and inhaling YOUR cigarette smoke?

Lol! Whether smelling or inhaling, I'm sorry to say you still have no knowledge about the dangers of second hand smoke as you claimed! Go figure!!!

To God Be The Glory
 
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Wow, you must be quite determined to find fault, or else you don't understand what you're reading. Go figure......lol
 

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Have you not seen the commercial where a person privately is smoking in his own apartment and the cigarette smoke travels through the ventilation system and out above his apartment where a little child is playing privately in his own apartment and inhaling YOUR cigarette smoke?

Lol! Whether smelling or inhaling, I'm sorry to say you still have no knowledge about the dangers of second hand smoke as you claimed! Go figure!!!

To God Be The Glory
My neighbor smokes and it enters my apartment. I think the point is not to take it too seriously or you'll go crazy. It's just a smell not a smoke that is concentrated enough to cause cancer. Cancer smoke has to be concentrated. So if they're smoking in your apartment and the room is filled with smoke then it's a problem.
 
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Smoking is not a sin but it is bad habit.
 
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My neighbor smokes and it enters my apartment. I think the point is not to take it too seriously or you'll go crazy. It's just a smell not a smoke that is concentrated enough to cause cancer. Cancer smoke has to be concentrated. So if they're smoking in your apartment and the room is filled with smoke then it's a problem.
Right. It's damaging to one's health, but still not your sin because you didn't choose to smell it or inhale the smoke. That crazy logic that jun "chosen" is proposing is like blaming rape on the victim, or blaming child abuse on the child.
 

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Right. It's damaging to one's health, but still not your sin because you didn't choose to smell it or inhale the smoke. That crazy logic that jun "chosen" is proposing is like blaming rape on the victim, or blaming child abuse on the child.
Well that idea is close to correct. The fact when I researched cancer was that the smell of cigarettes is not damaging to your health. At least they can't prove it. The smoke has to have a certain concentration to be damaging.
 

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Right. It's damaging to one's health, but still not your sin because you didn't choose to smell it or inhale the smoke. That crazy logic that jun "chosen" is proposing is like blaming rape on the victim, or blaming child abuse on the child.

Who in the world would blame the victims of rape or child abuse??? But it's becoming true as set forth in post #391!
 

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Well that idea is close to correct. The fact when I researched cancer was that the smell of cigarettes is not damaging to your health. At least they can't prove it. The smoke has to have a certain concentration to be damaging.
I understand. Still, even the smell that is left in a house or a room effects my breathing. Idk what the long term effects are, if any. But I have turned down the purchase of a house because the seller had a renter who chain smoked in the house. It was absolutely horrible! Idk if that smell would ever leave that house. And what a shame, bc it was an adorable and unique house and well priced.
 

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Who in the world would blame the victims of rape or child abuse??? But it's becoming true as set forth in post #391!
The same people who would blame someone else's smoking on the nonsmoking person who accidentally smells or inhales their smoke. Duh.....

Done.....ignoring....
 

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I understand. Still, even the smell that is left in a house or a room effects my breathing. Idk what the long term effects are, if any. But I have turned down the purchase of a house because the seller had a renter who chain smoked in the house. It was absolutely horrible! Idk if that smell would ever leave that house. And what a shame, bc it was an adorable and unique house and well priced.
Well your probably more likely to get cancer from air polution than the smell of smoke, unless its concentrated. You might tell JunChosen that: Does Air Pollution Cause Lung Cancer?

For each unit of increase in exposure to fine particulate air pollution, the risk of death increased by 8% for lung cancer, 6% for cardiopulmonary disease and 4% for other illnesses.
 
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Well your probably more likely to get cancer from air polution than the smell of smoke, unless its concentrated. You might tell JunChosen that: Does Air Pollution Cause Lung Cancer?

For each unit of increase in exposure to fine particulate air pollution, the risk of death increased by 8% for lung cancer, 6% for cardiopulmonary disease and 4% for other illnesses.

I'm not a scientist but if they warn me about things that pollute, you bet I will listen! consider Romans 13:1-4
 
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[QUOTE="Pearl, post: 1207297, member: 8155"]Get a life![/QUOTE]

Is that all you can muster? What a genius!