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What is the Church’s teachings on the topic of smoking?
 
I’m not sure. You would think I’d know. I’ve been trying to quit for the longest time now. This will probably fall under health issues and taking care of yourself.
 
Smoking is morally neutral. It can be sinful, but isn’t always. You can judge it just like anyother morally neutral act.
 
This isn’t going to help much, but one priest said once smoking wasn’t a sin, it was just stupid. Another priest said yes, it’s a sin…both are very orthodox priests…go figure.

Glad
 
I heard Fr. Corapi talk about this, he said that in this day and age, knowing all that we now know about it, that it would be a mortal sin for someone to start smoking now.
He said that he does understand that those who started years ago when we didn’t know all that we now know and didn’t know that they could get addicted to it, that it may not be as much as a sin for them but that nevertheless they too ought to make the effort to quit, that there is nothing good in it, and that it is not good for us, etc…
It seems that it would be something good to try to “offer up”, to try to not do so much, to perhaps give up during lent and then perhaps you could continue to stay stopped, it is something that I also still struggle with going on 40 years now, and someday I do hope and pray that I will conquer this. You could all pray for all of us that are addicted to anything and maybe one day…
Anyway, some days are better than others at the attempt to stop or at least not to do so much. I find it a filthy habbit that I wish I had never started and regret that I ever did. If you are considering it to be “cool” or to “fit in” or because of whatever reason, just don’t do it, its awful!!!
 
Perhaps this is why the two priests differed on their interpretation of whether it was a sin or not. One priest, that believed it was only stupid, is quite old and was around prior to today’s scientific evidences, and the other was brought up with the knowledge of the “evils” of smoking.

Glad
 
With due respect to Fr Corapi et al, I have never heard of the Church lauding anyone for giving up a sin for only one whole day… :hmmm:

:twocents: I agree: Morally neutral.

tee
 
allhers said:
I heard Fr. Corapi talk about this, he said that in this day and age, knowing all that we now know about it, that it would be a mortal sin for someone to start smoking now.
He said that he does understand that those who started years ago when we didn’t know all that we now know and didn’t know that they could get addicted to it, that it may not be as much as a sin for them but that nevertheless they too ought to make the effort to quit, that there is nothing good in it, and that it is not good for us, etc…

It seems that it would be something good to try to “offer up”, to try to not do so much, to perhaps give up during lent and then perhaps you could continue to stay stopped, it is something that I also still struggle with going on 40 years now, and someday I do hope and pray that I will conquer this. You could all pray for all of us that are addicted to anything and maybe one day…
Anyway, some days are better than others at the attempt to stop or at least not to do so much. I find it a filthy habbit that I wish I had never started and regret that I ever did. If you are considering it to be “cool” or to “fit in” or because of whatever reason, just don’t do it, its awful!!!
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tee, in light of what your response to this was, I need to clarify something, the part of what Fr. Corapi said ended with…and that it is not good for us, etc…
Now when I said the other parts (the last two paragraphs), what I meant was this…and maybe one day…(we would sucessfully stop). Not and maybe for just one day we’d stop. I wasn’t saying that it would be a great thing if I or anyone could just stop for one day.
 
allhers said:
I heard Fr. Corapi talk about this, he said that in this day and age, knowing all that we now know about it, that it would be a mortal sin for someone to start smoking now.
He said that he does understand that those who started years ago when we didn’t know all that we now know and didn’t know that they could get addicted to it, that it may not be as much as a sin for them but that nevertheless they too ought to make the effort to quit, that there is nothing good in it, and that it is not good for us, etc…
It seems that it would be something good to try to “offer up”, to try to not do so much, to perhaps give up during lent and then perhaps you could continue to stay stopped, it is something that I also still struggle with going on 40 years now, and someday I do hope and pray that I will conquer this. You could all pray for all of us that are addicted to anything and maybe one day…
Anyway, some days are better than others at the attempt to stop or at least not to do so much. I find it a filthy habbit that I wish I had never started and regret that I ever did. If you are considering it to be “cool” or to “fit in” or because of whatever reason, just don’t do it, its awful!!!
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I am hearing you, my friend!😊
 
allhers said:
tee, in light of what your response to this was, I need to clarify something, the part of what Fr. Corapi said ended with…and that it is not good for us, etc…
Now when I said the other parts (the last two paragraphs), what I meant was this…and maybe one day…(we would sucessfully stop). Not and maybe for just one day we’d stop. I wasn’t saying that it would be a great thing if I or anyone could just stop for one day.
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Be that as it may, I was referring to one of the opportunities to gain the plenary indulgence suggested during the Great Jubilee.

[URL=http://www.vatican.va/jubilee_2000/docs/documents/hf_jp-ii_doc_30111998_bolla-jubilee_en.html][I]Incarnationis Mysterium[/I] [/quote] said:
The plenary indulgence of the Jubilee can also be gained through actions which express in a practical and generous way the penitential spirit which is, as it were, the heart of the Jubilee. This would include abstaining for at least one whole day from unnecessary consumption (e.g., from smoking or alcohol, or fasting or practising abstinence according to the general rules of the Church and the norms laid down by the Bishops’ Conferences)…
tee
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Father Levis from EWTN takes a very lenient approach when it comes to smoking. I think he said he used to/stlll pipe smokes from time to time (don’t me to that statement, though)
 
I quite smoking for Lent in 2007. I am glad I did.

I value and respect Father Corapi a great deal. I myself had heard him discuss whether smoking is sinful and was not certain if I agreed with his reasoning.

There was one thing that do believe. Whether smoking is a sin or not (I am undecided), it is a habit which no longer glorifies God because it is often socially offensive to a significant number of people. There was a time when smoking was quite socially acceptable. That time has passed.

Consider an inveterate and public nose-picker. Eww! Probably not sinful , but certainly a socially offensive and distracting behavior.
 
rpp said:
I quite smoking for Lent in 2007. I am glad I did.

I value and respect Father Corapi a great deal. I myself had heard him discuss whether smoking is sinful and was not certain if I agreed with his reasoning.

There was one thing that do believe. Whether smoking is a sin or not (I am undecided), it is a habit which no longer glorifies God because it is often socially offensive to a significant number of people. There was a time when smoking was quite socially acceptable. That time has passed.

Consider an inveterate and public nose-picker. Eww! Probably not sinful , but certainly a socially offensive and distracting behavior.
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I am happy for you, please pray for us who are still stuck in this bad habit but need a lot of prayer to break free from it.
I have a great feeling that Fr. Corapi is right about that if someone started now that it would be mortal sin, since we know so much about it now and it is so bad for our bodies, (can actually kill people).

Now, if you gave me the choice to pick my nose in public or smoke, I’d light up:p but I get your point.

(Shoshana, pray for me and I’ll pray for you.)
 
My wife and I were on a private tour of Saint Mary Major a while back, with one of the canons there, a friend. We passed a statue of (here my mind is fuzzy) Pius X (?), a smoker. The Canon told us a story about how a young priest asked him if it was all right to smoke while he was praying. The pontiff said “No”. The young priest related this to a more senior cleric who said “Ah, you should have asked him whether it was permissible to pray while you were smoking!”
 
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