Do you smoke?

[Sojourner]

I'll smoke a cigar on occassion, but definitely prefer a pipe. Some came with my humidor, so they are cheap, but I have them. Someone gave me an Acid cigar once, it was decent. What do you smoke?

Don't mean to be judgmental here, but I wonder if this is really necessary on a Baptist board. I just find it hard to justify defiling the temple of the Holy Spirit in this way.

Now where is that verse that says "Thou shalt not smoke".......hmmm..... :huh:

[dwayner79]

Well, the question was asked...

While I tend to be quick to flex my freedom muscles, I also do not want to offend. It would seem that Tired and I have a different opinion on the defiling of the temple. You are free to have your opinion, but from the sounds of your post, you think all "baptists" should think the way you do about the matter. I suppose that plenty of things aren't "necessary" to discuss, but given that there is nothing explicitly sinful about smoking (a topic that has been discussed before) then why not have that conversation?

If you don't like it, then you need not participate. If you care to start a thread on the sinfulness, or lack there of, of smoking, then feel free. I will be happy to post my thoughts on the matter.

[Psalms18_28]

THere's no "I used to"

I quit smoking 6 years ago. but I only smoked about 2 years anyway, I wasn't too fond of it and I had asthma anyhow that kept me from getting addicted (I kept getting asthma, and since I quitted, my asthma got better)

My dad is a chain smoker, and I was surrounded with smokers (brother, cousins, aunts, uncles, father, etc)

[Bakershalfdozen]

I hate the smell of cigarette smoke, hate the addiction it causes in folks and hate the diseases it causes but one does have to wonder why Baptists are so quick to condemn smoking as "defiling the temple" while at the same time filling their bodies with soda pop, processed foods, fast food and too much food that contain harsh, unnatural chemicals and ingredients which damage the body and cause just as many (if not more) diseases as smoking.


Wow, what a long sentence! :lol:

[Psalms18_28]

I used to don't mind the smell of smoking... like I said, my dad was a chain smoker. He will fill our house with smoke. I was used to it.. (except I would wake up with a real itchy throat EVERYtime he start smoking in the morning.. he used call me an early bird because of that... but it was his smoking that was waking me up)


But now, everytime I am around my dad when he is smoking, I feel suffocated.

[dwayner79]

Cigarette smoke is rather oppressive.

@Bakers, you mean like Cheeseburgers :saint Seriously though, you're right. Good post.

[Bakershalfdozen]

I agree that cigarette smoke is different than pipe or cigar smoke. They all stink to me :loll: but yes, they are different.

[chev1958]

... but one does have to wonder why Baptists are so quick to condemn smoking as "defiling the temple" while at the same time filling their bodies with soda pop, processed foods, fast food and too much food ...

From a person who has a gingerbread person holding a candy cane as an avatar :uuhm: :frog

[Bakershalfdozen]

1-2 times a year - just like dwayner. :frog

[kevinmiller]

lol, interesting discussion. I think that the biggest problem with smoking is the addiction it brings. Anything that you are in subjection to outside of God is, IMO, wrong. It really bothers me when people smoke cigarettes in public around crowds of people, too. I can't stand the smell and second-hand smoke is supposed to be just as harmful as if you were smoking it yourself. I find it to be very inconsiderate. The addiction becomes so great, though, that the person can think only of satisfying the urge to smoke regardless of who's around them. It's along that same line of reasoning that I could never understand how people could smoke with their kids in the car or in the house. How can you care about your kids and yet expose them to smoke fumes in enclosed areas?

Anyway...cigar or pipe smoking, well, that's your choice. I don't think it's the best way to take care of our bodies and we do a lot of things that aren't taking care of our bodies, like eating gingerbread men. But, we probably all need to clean up some of the junk food in our own lives before pointing fingers. hehe
That said, I don't know that it's especially appropriate to discuss what someone likes smoking on the forum. It will offend people and I don't think that it is particularly profitable.

[bzmomo7]

I have never smoked, and never plan to start! I grew up in a house full of smokers--it disgusted me, and I spent the majority of my time in my room with the door closed. It also made me sick and in the winter I'd get the most aweful colds that were hard to get rid of. My mom died of cancer directly related to smoking before I graduated--she was 52. Smoking is not only a nasty habit, it is poison to the person doing it and those around them.

[Psalms18_28]

alot of unsaved people think smoking is a sin.

they get turned off everytime they see someone smoking in the parking lot of a church and called them hyprocites.

but they don't feel the same way when they see someone going to McDonald after church.

[Evan57]

I never smoke except one time at ten years old. I couldn't smoke. Later, one guy did accident put his cigarette to my arm. That was hurt and never anything to do with cigarette ever since. It is harmful. It can't cause careless for not taking care of it like burn up the house, etc. It is not safe and not healthy. Cigarette can kill you and second-handed people.

Evan57

[bzmomo7]

alot of unsaved people think smoking is a sin.

they get turned off everytime they see someone smoking in the parking lot of a church and called them hyprocites.

but they don't feel the same way when they see someone going to McDonald after church.

I always feel bad for people who smoke. I have seen many people (because of the people I was around growing up) try to quit--I only saw one actually succeed. That person was my dad.....he quit cold-turkey, but it made him very sick in the process for awhile. He quit because he got saved and was turning his life around for the Lord. The only way to not have that problem is to never begin it. I think that the reason why some people even outside of the church look at it as a "sin" is because the correlation between smoking and cancer (and emphysema as well) is well documented and proven. How many people do you know of who have been cured of either of those? Not many, I'm sure.... if you can think of one. Smoking is a slow killer whose poisons reach beyond the smoker to those in their proximity. Bad food choices are bad, plain and simple....they can lead to health problems. Over time those choices can lead to disease, but it is not guaranteed like it is with smoking. My mother's family is a good example of it--many ate very poorly and were obese (and of course, some had health issues like diabetes), but the only ones who died before they were 70 were the smokers. I understand that smoking is an addiction, I don't feel condemnation towards those who do smoke, but I really think it is unfair to compare it to food. We have to have food to survive, and the preferred fuel for survival just happens to be sugar and fat. We americans just happen to have both of those in abundance--we have no reason to smoke.

[John81]

alot of unsaved people think smoking is a sin.

they get turned off everytime they see someone smoking in the parking lot of a church and called them hyprocites.

but they don't feel the same way when they see someone going to McDonald after church.

That's a fact I've noticed time and again over the years.

At one time I had some Christian friends who still smoked and their smoking caused great damage to their witnessing and testimony as all the unsaved people we encountered considered smoking to be a sin.